Strings vs. String Literals

[Dstrayex]

Hey, I'm new to this forum and I wanted to ask a question, I'm reading a book about C++ and they keep mentioning string literals, as well as strings. I don't understand the difference. I'm not sure if this is really simple or not but can someone explain it to me?

[Moschops]

A string literal is something like this in your actual code: "a string literal"

A string is a just a particular C++ object.

[Dstrayex]

Thank You!