Modern C++ for Absolute Beginners: A Friendly Introduction to the C++ Programming Language and C++11 to C++23 Standards

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S. DmitrovićModern C++ for Absolute Beginnershttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-9274-7_13

13. Introduction to Strings

Slobodan Dmitrović¹  

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Belgrade, Serbia

 

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 = ...