String (C++) (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. In the C++ programming language, the std:: string class is a standard representation for a string of text. This class alleviates many of the problems introduced by C-style strings by putting the onus of memory ownership on the string class rather than on the programmer. The class provides some typical string operations like comparison, concatenation, find and replace, and a function for obtaining substrings. It can be constructed from a C-style string, and a C-style string can also be obtained from it. Because a string may be stored by value, copying may take as long as O(n). It will also cause heap memory to be allocated, which is usually far more expensive than the cop