C++ Primer Plus, Fourth Edition

Summary

C++ provides a powerful set of libraries that provide solutions to many common programming problems and the tools to simplify many more problems. The string class provides a convenient means to handle strings as objects. The class provides automatic memory management and a host of methods and functions for working with strings. For example, they allow you to concatenate strings, insert one string into another, reverse a string, search a string for characters or substrings, and perform input and output operations.

The auto_ptr template makes it easier to manage memory allocated by new. If you use an auto_ptr object instead of a regular pointer to hold the address returned by new, you don't have to remember to use the delete operator later. ...