The C++ Programming Language, Special Edition

Chapter 20. Strings

	Prefer the standard to the offbeat.
	--Strunk & White

Strings — characters — char_traits — basic_string — iterators — element access — constructors — error handling — assignment — conversions — comparisons — insertion — concatenation — find and replace — size and capacity — string I/O — C-style strings — character classification — C library functions — advice — exercises.

Introduction

A string is a sequence of characters. The standard library string provides string manipulation operations such as subscripting (§20.3.3), assignment (§20.3.6), comparison (§20.3.8), appending (§20.3.9), concatenation (§20.3.10), and searching for substrings (§20.3.11). No general substring facility is provided by the standard, so one is provided ...