Beginning C++20: From Novice to Professional

© Ivor Horton and Peter Van Weert 2020

I. Horton, P. Van WeertBeginning C++20https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5884-2_7

7. Working with Strings

Ivor Horton¹  and Peter Van Weert²

(1)

Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, UK

(2)

Kessel-Lo, Belgium

 

This chapter is about handling textual data much more effectively and safely than the mechanism provided by a C-style string stored in an array of char elements:

In this chapter, you’ll learn

• How to create variables of type string

• What operations are available with objects of type string and how you use them

• How to chain together various bits and pieces to form one single string

• How you can search a string for a specific character or substring

• How you can modify an existing string

• How to convert a string such as "3.1415" ...