.NET and COM Interoperability Handbook, The

Creating and Manipulating a String in C#

One of the most fundamental things that you will need to do as a computer programmer in any programming language is to work with strings: creating them, comparing them, searching them for subvalues, concatenating them, and parsing them. The biggest problem with string manipulation in C and C++ on the Windows platform is that there are so many ways to manipulate strings. The Windows platform supports strings with single-byte characters or wide characters or you can write code that is portable to both. There is a different set of string manipulation functions in the C and C++ runtime library for each of these character types. Of course, if you are using the MFC, it makes sense for you to use the CString ...