Earlier, we mentioned printing out a string literal such as "Hello World." to a standard output via:
std::cout << "Hello World.";
We can store these string literals inside a std::string type. The 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.
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 = ...
