The C++ Programming Language, 4th Edition

36. Strings

Prefer the standard to the offbeat.

– Strunk & White

• Introduction

• Character Classification

Classification Functions; Character Traits

• Strings

string vs. C-Style Strings; Constructors; Fundamental Operations; String I/O; Numeric Conversions; STL-like Operations; The find Family; Substrings

• Advice

36.1. Introduction

The standard library offers character classification operations in <cctype> (§36.2), strings with associated operations in <string> (§36.3), regular expression matching in <regex> (Chapter 37), and support for C-style strings in <cstring> (§43.4). Handling of different character sets, encodings, and conventions (locales) is discussed in Chapter 39.

A simplified string implementation is presented in §19.3.

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