The Waite Group's C++ Primer Plus, Third Edition

The string Class

Chapter 11 introduced a modest String class to illustrate some aspects of class design. C++ itself provides a more powerful version called the string class. It is supported by the string header file.(Note that the string.h and cstring header files support the C library string functions for C-style strings, not the string class.) The key to using a class is knowing its public interface, and the string class has an extensive set of methods, including several constructors, overloaded operators for assigning strings, concatenating strings, comparing strings, and accessing individual elements, as well as utilities for finding characters and substrings in a string, and more. In short, the string class has lots of stuff.

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