C++ How to Program, 10/e

21.1 Introduction1

1. Various string features we discuss in this chapter were also presented in Chapter 21. We kept all the features in this chapter for completeness and for people who may read the chapters out of order.

The class template basic_string provides typical string-manipulation operations such as copying, searching, etc. The template definition and all support facilities are defined in namespace std; these include the typedef statement

typedef basic_string<char> string;

that creates the alias type string for basic_string<char>. A typedef is also provided for the wchar_t type (wstring). Type wchar_t2 stores characters (e.g., two-byte characters, four-byte characters, etc.) for supporting other character sets. We use string exclusively ...