C-style strings

Basic facilities, Part 1 - slide 16 : 28

C-style strings

C++ supports both C-style strings and type String via the Library.

C-style strings: char* or char[]
- A pointer to the first character in an array of characters
- Zero terminated
- A string literal in C++ program, such as "string literal", is not of type String
- Almost identical to string handling in C programs

Both C-style strings and objects or type string are mutable.