Strings

[Tanner]

So I've been following TheNewBoston's tutorials and I think I've made good progress. But this tutorial his guide just left me in the dark. He introduced a new term he hadn't used before, string. What is this? The code he uses is below but I have no idea what it means or what he is doing.

 #include <iostream>
#include <string>

using namespace std;
int main();

class Cool{
    public:
        void setName(string x){
            name = x;
        }
        string getName(){
            return name;
        }
    private:
        string name;
};

int main() {


    return 0;
}

[MiiNiPaa]

String is a string: sequence of characters.
consider this:

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#include <iostream> #include <string> int main() { std::string name; std::cout << "WHat is your name?\n"; std::cin >> name; std::cout << "Hello, " << name << "!\n"; std::string HW = ", "; HW = "Hello" + HW; HW += "world!"; std::cout << HW << '\n'; }

WHat is your name? Mike Hello, Mike! Hello, world!

[disturbedfuel15]

He is not actually using the function getName() in the code. He is just showing you how to declare it in the class.

[SeanTharpe]

A string is basically what you are reading right now. It is basically just a quotation of whatever amount of letters and/or numbers. It took me a while to just understand that when I started getting into programming. Just let us know if you still have trouble understanding.

[JLBorges]

> He introduced a new term he hadn't used before, string. What is this?

Reading this would help: http://www.mochima.com/tutorials/strings.html