Strings: Overview

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Visual C++ provides several ways to manage string data:

• Run-time library functions for working with C-style null-terminated strings
  
  
• Win32 API functions for managing strings
  
  
• MFC's class CString, which provides flexible, resizable string objects

Nearly all programs work with string data. MFC's CString class is often the best solution for flexible string handling. Both the run-time library and CString support strings containing multibyte (wide) characters, as in Unicode or MBCS programming.

What do you want to know more about?

• CString
  
  
• General discussion of CString
  
  
• Converting between CString and other string types
  
  
• CString objects as function arguments or return values
  
  
• Unicode and MBCS support in CString
  
  
• CString member functions that replace standard run-time functions