.. _C++Strings:

Characters and Strings
======================

Since C++ is an extension of C, standard C style null terminated
character array strings work as always with the string.h include
file.

C++ also has a native string class. The same C string functions are
supported with the string class with the cstring include file.
Namely, cstring includes:
`srcpy`, `strncpy`, `strcat`, `strncat`, `strcmp`,
`strncmp`, `strlen`.

Strings may be initialized as empty, from a constant string, from a
C char string or from another C++ string class. The string object,
has a number of methods and overloaded operators.