Strings in C++?

Hi Everyone,
I'm new here, so please don't be so harsh on me hehe.

So basically, I went out and purchased "C++ For Dummies, 5th Edition", and read the variables section. It says for strings, you use it in the following format:

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string szMyString;

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However, when I put this in, I get a compiler error. I don't think string is recognised as a variable type because it doesn't get highlighted.

So I was wondering, what's going on? Does C++ even support strings? Is there some sort of different header apart from the iostream I need to include?

Oh, happy new year everyone, hope you've all had an excellent Christmas.

Thanks :).

You need to #include <string>. Also, unless you have a using directive like using namespace std; or a using declaration like using std::string;, you should fully qualify the name as std::string.

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Originally Posted by laserlight

You need to #include <string>. Also, unless you have a using directive like using namespace std; or a using declaration like using std::string;, you should fully qualify the name as std::string.

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Thanks a lot!
Have an excellent new year.

The cool thing about strings are that you can even access individual characters like char string arrays, like so: szString[i];

If you need to convert to char array: szString.c_str();
And if you need to cut up sections, use .substr()!

good luck!

That's not cool, that's the biggest headache in trying to produce a std::string-compliant proper unicode-based string implementation.

Nice :) Thanks guys.