C++ Primer Plus, Fourth Edition

Strings

A string is a series of characters stored in consecutive bytes of memory. C++ has two ways of dealing with strings. The first, taken from C and often called a C-style string, is the method you'll learn here. Chapter 16, “The String Class and the Standard Template Library,” takes up an alternative method based on a string class library. Meanwhile, the idea of a series of characters stored in consecutive bytes implies that you can store a string in an array of char, with each character kept in its own array element. Strings provide a convenient way to store text information, such as messages to the user (“Please tell me your secret Swiss bank account number: “) or responses from the user (“You must be joking”). C-style strings have a special ...