August 1999
Beginner to intermediate
912 pages
15h 44m
English
Learn about the standard C++ string data type
Investigate the basic_string class template
Examine the standard string operators
Explore the standard string member functions
Learn to use standard strings with C -style string functions
Strings of characters are the basis of written communication, and they are the basis of programming, too—we need them to write source code in an editor, to construct electronic documents, to generate reports, and so on. You’ve seen strings used in this book since Chapter 1: The ANSI C solution to strings is a null-terminated array of characters; although the Standard C++ Library provides full support for these primitive strings, they’re a bit ...