Earlier, we mentioned printing out a string literal such as "Hello World
." to standard output via:
std::cout << "Hello World.";
We can store these literals inside std::string type. C++ standard library offers a compound type called string or rather std::string as it is part of the std namespace. We use it for storing and manipulating strings.
13.1 Defining a String
To use the std::string type, we need to include the <string> header in our program:
#include <string>
int main()
{
std::string s = "Hello World.";
}
To print out this string on the standard output we use: ...
