Question about string comparision

[Mathieas]

I am currently reading Jumping into C++ and the author states you can use comparision operators to compare two strings and see which comes first in aplhabetical order. I am unsure how to do this. Which comparison would you do to compare a string alphabeticaly? how is this comparision being done at the program level? does it use the ascii values?

Thank you for your time and expertise.

Jonathan

[laserlight]

the author states you can use comparision operators to compare two strings and see which comes first in aplhabetical order. I am unsure how to do this. Which comparison would you do to compare a string alphabeticaly?

Note that by "strings" the author most likely means std::string objects. Given two such strings s1 and s2, you might write s1 < s2.

how is this comparision being done at the program level?

operator< is overloaded to compare character by character.

does it use the ascii values?

Assuming that ASCII is in use, yes.

[Mathieas]

That makes perfect sense, thank you for your time!