Sams Teach Yourself C++ in One Hour a Day, Seventh Edition

Lesson 4. Managing Arrays and Strings

In previous lessons, you declared variables used to contain a single int, char, or string to mention a few instances. However, you may want to declare a collection of objects, such as 20 ints or a litter of Cats.

In this lesson, you find out

• What arrays are and how to declare and use them

• What strings are and how to use character arrays to make them

• A brief introduction to std::string

What Is an Array?

The dictionary definition of an array gets really close to what we want to be understanding. According to Merriam Webster, an array is “a group of elements forming a complete unit, for example an array of solar panels.”

The following are characteristics of an array:

• An array is a collection of elements. ...