Strings library

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Strings library
Null-terminated strings Byte strings Multibyte strings Wide strings Classes basic_string char_traits

basic_string

Defined in header <string>
template<     class CharT,     class Traits = std::char_traits<CharT>,     class Allocator = std::allocator<CharT> > > class basic_string;

The class basic_string generalizes the way how sequences of characters are manipulated and stored.

Several specializations of the class basic_string are provided:

Defined in header <string>
Type	Definition
string	basic_string<char>
wstring	basic_string<wchar_t>
u16string	basic_string<char16_t>
u32string	basic_string<char32_t>

char_traits

Strings library provides class template char_traits, defining types and functions for a character container. The following specializations are defined:

Defined in header <string>
template<> class char_traits<std::string>; template<> class char_traits<std::wstring>; template<> class char_traits<std::u16string>; template<> class char_traits<std::u32string>;		(since C++11) (since C++11)