Sams Teach Yourself C++ in One Hour a Day, 9th 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 string of characters to hold a name.

In this lesson, you learn

• ■   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 you need to understand in the context of C++. 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 ...