C++ Primer Plus

What Else Does the string Class Offer?

The string library supplies many other facilities. There are functions for erasing part or all of a string, for replacing part or all of one string with part or all of another string, for inserting material into a string or removing material from a string, for comparing part or all of one string with part or all of another string, and for extracting a substring from a string. There’s a function for copying part of one string to another string, and there’s a function for swapping the contents of two strings. Most of these functions are overloaded so that they can work with C-style strings as well as with string objects. Appendix F describes the string library function briefly, but let’s talk about a few more ...