Strings library

Strings library

The C++ strings library includes support for three general types of strings:

• std::basic_string - a templated class designed to manipulate strings of any character type.
• std::basic_string_view (C++17) - a lightweight non-owning read-only view into a subsequence of a string.
• Null-terminated strings - arrays of characters terminated by a special null character.

std::basic_string

The templated class std::basic_string generalizes how sequences of character