Strings Introduction

In C++, strings are objects from the Standard Library (std::string) that represent sequences of characters.

Unlike C-style character arrays, std::string handles memory management automatically and provides many convenient functions for working with text, such as concatenation, searching, and substring extraction.

Strings are widely used to store and manipulate text like names, addresses, and messages.

To use std::string, include the <string> header (and <iostream> when printing) and create string objects as shown below:

Strings can be initialized in several different ways: