Given: typedef std::deque<char> DequeString; std::string s("Hello sweet world!"); std::string word("sweet"); DequeString dequeString; // Copy "Hello sweet world!" into the deque string std::copy(s.begin(),s.end(),std::back_inserter(dequeString)); // Now, I want to find where "sweet" appears in the dequeString. An iterator to its location would be fine. // This doesn't quite do it, since it looks for _any_ occurrence of a character from word in dequeString std::find_first_of(dequeString.begin(),dequeString.end(),word.begin(),word.end()); // But, I want to find where _the whole_ word occurs in dequeString, similar to how std::string::find() does it: std::string::size_type wordPos=s.find(word); Is there something in boost or the standard C++ lib that can be used? Thanks, Michael Goldshteyn