Beginning C++

CHAPTER 7

Working with Strings

This chapter is about handling textual data much more effectively and safely that the mechanism provided by a C-style string stored in an array of char elements. In this chapter, you’ll learn:

• How to create variables of type string
• What operations are available with objects of type string, and how you use them
• How you can search a string for a specific character or a substring
• How you can modify an existing string
• How you can work with strings containing Unicode characters
• What a raw string literal is

A Better Class of String

You’ve seen how you can use an array of elements type char to store a null-terminated ...