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Chapter 11 of 17

Strings

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Text is everywhere

Almost every program reads, manipulates and prints text. C++ represents text as a string — a sequence of characters. Strings are immutable in many languages, meaning every "change" actually produces a brand new string and leaves the original alone.

std::string name = "PlayLearn";
std::cout << name.size() << "\n";
std::cout << name.substr(0, 4) << "\n";

Common string operations

Concatenation joins two strings together. Slicing extracts a portion. Searching finds whether a substring exists. Splitting breaks a string into pieces around a separator. Replacing swaps one substring for another. These five operations cover the vast majority of real-world text work.

Formatting and templates

When you need to drop variables into a string, prefer the language's built-in template syntax over manual concatenation. It is shorter, harder to get wrong, and produces clearer code that other developers can scan in a glance.

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