C++ Strings
The string class provides a useful way to manipulate and store sequences of characters, and is defined in the std namespace in the <string> header file.
| Constructors | create strings from arrays of characters and other strings |
| Operators | concatenate strings, assign strings, use strings for I/O, compare strings |
| append | append characters and strings onto a string |
| assign | give a string values from strings of characters and other C++ strings |
| at | returns the character at a specific location |
| begin | returns an iterator to the beginning of the string |
| c_str | returns a non-modifiable standard C character array version of the string |
| capacity | returns the number of characters that the string can hold |
| clear | removes all characters from the string |
| compare | compares two strings |
| copy | copies characters from a string into an array |
| data | returns a pointer to the first character of a string |
| empty | true if the string has no characters |
| end | returns an iterator just past the last character of a string |
| erase | removes characters from a string |
| find | find characters in the string |
| find_first_not_of | find first absence of characters |
| find_first_of | find first occurrence of characters |
| find_last_not_of | find last absence of characters |
| find_last_of | find last occurrence of characters |
| getline | read data from an I/O stream into a string |
| insert | insert characters into a string |
| length | returns the length of the string |
| max_size | returns the maximum number of characters that the string can hold |
| push_back | add a character to the end of the string |
| rbegin | returns a reverse_iterator to the end of the string |
| rend | returns a reverse_iterator to the beginning of the string |
| replace | replace characters in the string |
| reserve | sets the minimum capacity of the string |
| resize | change the size of the string |
| rfind | find the last occurrence of a substring |
| size | returns the number of items in the string |
| substr | returns a certain substring |
| swap | swap the contents of this string with another |