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Originally Posted by taha umar
wat is the difference b/w ponters and strings?
A string is like a collection of chars
I hope this is helpful
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A Pointer contains an address that points to data.
A string is any finite sequence of characters (i.e., letters, numerals, symbols and punctuation marks).
A string is any finite sequence of characters (i.e., letters, numerals, symbols and punctuation marks).
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Originally Posted by sunnypalsingh
A string is any finite sequence of characters (i.e., letters, numerals, symbols and punctuation marks).
A c-style string is a null-terminated sequence of characters -- certainly considerably less than infinite! That means that the string ends with the first byte that contains 0.
The C++ string is a class in std library. There are other c++ string classes too, but the standard one is in std namespace.
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Originally Posted by jwenting
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Now we have a ponter that is a string
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Shouldn't that be 
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Originally Posted by jwenting
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Now we have a ponter that is a string
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Originally Posted by JoBe
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Originally Posted by sunnypalsingh
Yup...though I have never seen or used it like this before.
BTW jwenting is more of a java person, so perhaps that's where the confusion came from.
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