Various operations, such as copying, concatenation, tokenization and searching are supported A string of n characters is represented as an array of n. See for example concatenation below. A string is often implemented as an array data structure of bytes (or words) that stores a sequence of elements, typically characters, using some character encoding More general, string may also denote a sequence (or list) of data other than just characters. The std::string type is the main string datatype in standard c++ since 1998, but it was not always part of c++
The following code shows an example of the use of tracking references Replacing the tracking reference with a regular handle variable would leave the resulting string array with 10 uninitialized string handles, as only copies of the string handles in the array would be set, due to them being passed by value rather than by reference. Organized as one or more source files Building the code typically involves preprocessing and then compiling each source file into an object file Then, the object files are linked to create an executable image Variables and functions can be declared separately from their definition
