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By Alex on September 12th, 2009 | last modified by Alex on June 16th, 2016
The standard library contains many useful classes -- but perhaps the most useful is std::string.
std::string (and std::wstring) is a string class that provides many operations to assign, compare, and modify strings.
In this chapter, we’ll look into these string classes in depth.
Note: C-style strings will be referred to as “C-style strings”, whereas std::strings (and std::wstring) will be referred to simply as “strings”.
Motivation for a string class
In a previous lesson, we covered
, which using char arrays to store a string of characters.
If you’ve tried to do anything with C-style strings, you’ll very quickly come to the conclusion that they are a pain to work with, easy to mess up, and hard to debug.
C-style strings have many shortcomings, primarily revolving around the fact that you have to do all the memory management yourself.
For example, if you want to assign the string “hello!” into a buffer, you have to first dynamically allocate a buffer of the correct length:
char *strHello = new char[7];
Don’t forget to account for an extra character for the null terminator!
Then you have to actually copy the value in:
strcpy(strHello, "hello!");
Hopefully you made your buffer large enough so there’s no buffer overflow!
And of course, because the string is dynamically allocated, you have to remember to deallocate it properly when you’re done with it:
delete[] strHello;
Don’t forget to use array delete instead of normal delete!
Furthermore, many of the intuitive operators that C provides to work with numbers, such as assignment and comparisons, simply don’t work with C-style strings.
Sometimes these will appear to work but actually produce incorrect results -- for example, comparing two C-style strings using == will actually do a pointer comparison, not a string comparison.
Assigning one C-style string to another using operator= will appear to work at first, but is actually doing a pointer copy (shallow copy), which is not generally what you want.
These kinds of things can lead to program crashes that are very hard to find and debug!
The bottom line is that working with C-style strings requires remembering a lot of nit-picky rules about what is safe/unsafe, memorizing a bunch of functions that have funny names like strcat() and strcmp() instead of using intuitive operators, and doing lots of manual memory management.
Fortunately, C++ and the standard library provide a much better way to deal with strings: the std::string and std::wstring classes.
By making use of C++ concepts such as constructors, destructors, and operator overloading, std::string allows you to create and manipulate strings in an intuitive and safe manner!
No more memory management, no more weird function names, and a much reduced potential for disaster.
Sign me up!
String overview
All string functionality in the standard library lives in the &string& header file.
To use it, simply include the string header:
&&&&#include &string&
There are actually 3 different string classes in the string header.
The first is a templated base class named basic_string:
namespace std{&&&&template&class charT, class traits = char_traits&charT&, class Allocator = allocator&charT& &&&&&&&&&class basic_string;}
You won’t be working with this class directly, so don’t worry about what traits or an Allocator is for the time being.
The default values will suffice in almost every imaginable case.
There are two flavors of basic_string provided by the standard library:
namespace std{&&&&typedef basic_string&char& string;&&&&typedef basic_string&wchar_t& wstring;}
These are the two classes that you will actually use.
std::string is used for standard ascii (utf-8) strings.
std::wstring is used for wide-character/unicode (utf-16) strings.
There is no built-in class for utf-32 strings (though you should be able to extend your own from basic_string if you need one).
Although you will directly use std::string and std::wstring, all of the string functionality is implemented in the basic_string class.
String and wstring are able to access that functionality directly by virtue of being templated.
Consequently, all of the functions presented will work for both string and wstring.
However, because basic_string is a templated class, it also means the compiler will produce horrible looking template errors when you do something syntactically incorrect with a string or wstring.
Don’t be intimid they look far worse than they are!
Here’s a list of all the functions in the string class.
Most of these functions have multiple flavors to handle different types of inputs, which we will cover in more depth in the next lessons.
Creation and destruction
Create or copy a string
Destroy a string
Size and capacity
Returns the number of characters that can be held without reallocation
Returns a boolean indicating whether the string is empty
Returns the number of characters in string
Returns the maximum string size that can be allocated
Expand or shrink the capacity of the string
Element access
Accesses the character at a particular index
Modification
Assigns a new value to the string
Concatenates characters to end of the string
Inserts characters at an arbitrary index in string
Delete all characters in the string
Erase characters at an arbitrary index in string
Replace characters at an arbitrary index with other characters
Expand or shrink the string (truncates or adds characters at end of string)
Swaps the value of two strings
Input and Output
&&, getline()
Reads values from the input stream into the string
Writes string value to the output stream
Returns the contents of the string as a NULL-terminated C-style string
Copies contents (not NULL-terminated) to a character array
Returns the contents of the string as a non-NULL-terminated character array
String comparison
&, &=, & &=
Compares whether two strings are equal/unequal (returns bool)
Compares whether two strings are less than / greater than each other (returns bool)
Compares whether two strings are equal/unequal (returns -1, 0, or 1)
Substrings and concatenation
Concatenates two strings
Returns a substring
find_first_of
find_first_not_of
find_last_of
find_last_not_of
Find index of first character/substring
Find index of first character from a set of characters
Find index of first character not from a set of characters
Find index of last character from a set of characters
Find index of last character not from a set of characters
Find index of last character/substring
Iterator and allocator support
begin(), end()
get_allocator()
rbegin(), rend()
Forward-direction iterator support for beginning/end of string
Returns the allocator
Reverse-direction iterator support for beginning/end of string
Note: The above table will look funny if your browser is too narrow
While the standard library string classes provide a lot of functionality, there are a few notable omissions:
Regular expression support
Constructors for creating strings from numbers
Capitalization / upper case / lower case functions
Case-insensitive comparisons
Tokenization / splitting string into array
Easy functions for getting the left or right hand portion of string
Whitespace trimming
Formatting a string sprintf style
Conversion from utf-8 to utf-16 or vice-versa
For most of these, you will have to either write your own functions, or convert your string to a C-style string (using c_str()) and use the C functions that offer this functionality.
In the next lessons, we will look at the various functions of the string class in more depth.
Although we will use string for our examples, everything is equally applicable to wstring.
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