Modern C++: Efficient and Scalable Application Development

How it works...

For implementing the utility functions from the library, we have two options:

• Functions would modify a string passed by a reference.
• Functions would not alter the original string but return a new string.

The second option has the advantage that it preserves the original string, which may be helpful in many cases. Otherwise, in those cases, you would first have to make a copy of the string and alter the copy. The implementation provided in this recipe takes the second approach.

The first functions we implemented in the How to do it... section were to_upper() and to_lower(). These functions change the content of a string either to uppercase or lowercase. The simplest way to implement this is using the std::transform() standard ...