Object Oriented Programming with C++, Second Edition

SUMMARY

• Strings are stored as null terminated character array.
• Header file “string.h” contains lot of functions to work with strings.
• A string constant is formed when we put characters in pair of double quotes.
• For Copying one string into other assignment operator = cannot be used. Function strcpy() has to be used.
• C-strings are handled with the help of a pointer to char (which points to array of char where the string is stored). However string variables should be declared as array of characters.
• Function strlen() returns the length of the string (excluding the null character).
• The function strcat() is used for concatenation of two strings.
• Ordinary relational operators do not work correctly with strings. Special function strcmp() has to be ...