C++ Standard Library Quick Reference

© Peter Van Weert and Marc Gregoire 2016

Peter Van Weert and Marc GregoireC++ Standard Library Quick Reference10.1007/978-1-4842-1876-1_6

6. Characters and Strings

Peter Van Weert¹  and Marc Gregoire²

(1)

Kessel-Lo, Belgium

(2)

Meldert, Belgium

 

Strings    <string>

The Standard defines four different string types , each for a different char-like type:

	String Type	Characters	Typical Character Size
Narrow strings	std::string	char	8 bit
Wide strings	std::wstring	wchar_t	16 or 32 bit
UTF-16 strings	std::u16string	char16_t	16 bit
UTF-32 strings	std::u32string	char32_t	32 bit

The names in the first column are purely indicative, because strings are completely agnostic about the character encoding used for the char-like items—or code units, as they are technically ...