C++ Primer Plus

More Assignment Methods

In addition to the basic assignment operator, the string class provides assign() methods, which allow you to assign a whole string or a part of a string or a sequence of identical characters to a string object. Here are the prototypes for the various assign() methods:

basic_string& assign(const basic_string& str);basic string& assign(basic_string&& str) noexcept;   // C++11basic_string& assign(const basic_string& str, size_type pos,                     size_type n);basic_string& assign(const charT* s, size_type n);basic_string& assign(const charT* s);basic_string& assign(size_type n, charT c); // assign n copies of ctemplate<class InputIterator>  basic_string& assign(InputIterator first, InputIterator last);basic_string& ...