string variables?

[chrisx16x2008]

I'm kinda new to C++ and I haven't been able to find any "string" variables. The closest I have found is Char but its only supposed to hold one byte. Can someone help me out?


I just realized I posted this in the Programming mission section. Moderator please move.

[TheMindRapist]

http://tinyurl.com/cay5lo
Also, moved to General Programming forum.
Edit: The moral of this post is that Google is your friend.

[chrisx16x2008]

I tried google before this post. maybe this would help more...

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#include "stdafx.h"
#include "iostream"
#include <windows.h>
#include <string>

using namespace std;

int i = 1;

string shiftkey()
{
   if (GetAsyncKeyState(VK_SHIFT) & 0x8000)
   {
      for(int a = 0; a < 1; a++)
      {
      string str3("it works!");
      }
   }
return str3;
}

int main()
{

cin.get();
return 0;
}


this is my code and i keep getting an 'str3' undeclared identifier error

Also I know there is some stuff I don't need in there like int i = 1. That is just some stuff I used for some code i deleted from it.

[mischief]

in C and C++ you can use C-style strings like the following:

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char *str = "this is a string literal";


this is a character pointer initialized from a string literal.
in c-style strings, the string is termiated with a null ("\0") so that a program knows when to stop processing it, because it goes through the memory sequentially, and stops when it hits a null.

in the standard, however, there is a string class. you can use them like so:

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#include <string>

int main() {
std::string s = "i am another string literal";
}


this will have s holding a copy of the string literal.

you can find more information on how to use the string class here -> http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/string/string/

[damage_case]

I tried google before this post. maybe this would help more...

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#include "stdafx.h"
#include "iostream"
#include <windows.h>
#include <string>

using namespace std;

int i = 1;

string shiftkey()
{
   if (GetAsyncKeyState(VK_SHIFT) & 0x8000)
   {
      for(int a = 0; a < 1; a++)
      {
      string str3("it works!");
      }
   }
return str3;
}

int main()
{

cin.get();
return 0;
}


this is my code and i keep getting an 'str3' undeclared identifier error

Also I know there is some stuff I don't need in there like int i = 1. That is just some stuff I used for some code i deleted from it.

The problem is that you are trying to use object str3 ouside of it's scope (I'm not sure if that is a correct english term). You declared a local variable inside of 'for'-block so it's exists only inside of that block. See Stroustrup 3rd edition 4.9.4. But actually this is not a C++ specific thing, it's a general concept in programming.

[chrisx16x2008]

thanks!