nnxion

Yeah sorry Jayme, I edited my post, but it's because of the string class operator==.

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jayme

Gotta love the string class.

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DaWei

I could have sworn my original post mentioned arrays, not the string class...I should pay more attention.

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titaniumdecoy

I found it confusing that you named the variable myString rather than myCharArray or such.

DaWei

The term, 'string', predates C++ AND C. So do the words, 'vector', 'reference', etc. Some of us are older than others, even though our memory now sucks.

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nnxion

Yeah the term "string" predates C++ and C in Dutch also, it's an English word, but in Dutch it means "thong". So if I talk to a programmer on the streets and talk about strings, people look strange at me.

We have another word like that, "beamer", which is also an English word but it's non-existing in the English language, the English word is "(video) projector".

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grumpy

Don't go to Sweden and ask for a glass of beer, unless you're confident the person you're asking is fluent in english. The Swedish word that sounds like "beer" actually means "vegetable oil" or something similar.

The treatment of strings and arrays in C (and hence C++) is a little strange. Novices tend to think of the "Hello" as a string (or if they are pedantic, as a string literal) but, to the compiler, it is an array of 6 (yes, I mean 6) characters. So you can only manipulate it (assign to it if it's variable, compare it with other string literals, etc) using operations that work on arrays. Functions like strcpy() and strcmp() do that (and are normally the things the programmer needs to use), while operators like = or == compare pointers rather than arrays.

And, to confuse things further, the C++ standard library includes a string type, which is technically a C++ class that encapsulates an array of characters.