char * or string
Hi
Excuse what may be some pretty simple or dumb questions over the next few weeks from me. My mentor at work has a history in embedded C and hasn't ever really touched C++. We're working on a project together and we have some work that inevitably involves strings.
With his C background, he doesn't like strings. He told me to use char * or const char * when working with a string in C++, however I was aware of the strings.h library.
Much like my previous question on arrays and vectors, should I use char * or string?
Thanks
Excuse what may be some pretty simple or dumb questions over the next few weeks from me. My mentor at work has a history in embedded C and hasn't ever really touched C++. We're working on a project together and we have some work that inevitably involves strings.
With his C background, he doesn't like strings. He told me to use char * or const char * when working with a string in C++, however I was aware of the strings.h library.
Much like my previous question on arrays and vectors, should I use char * or string?
Thanks
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