I dunno, they made us do it as a null-terminated char array, which is what
it is under the hood.

> From: "Geo" 
> Someone had mentioned a class  for handling strings, if they are still
> reading, where can I find that class? I'm finding that string handling is a
> real shortcoming of C++.
> Geo.
> "Ellen K." 
wrote in message
> news:nfm4p0ps20mlefvmfi2h46g90itqvuopmv{at}4ax.com...
>> Yes.  Which is why a string isn't a variable.  Since all the computer
>> really knows is 1 and 0, only something expressible numerically can be a
>> variable.  Char works because each letter has a numeric value.
>> 
>> On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 06:17:49 -0600, "Geo"
 wrote in
>> message :
>> 
>> >"John Beckett"
 wrote in message
>> >news:4191d191.1863810{at}216.144.1.254...
>> >
>> >> I just stuck "define:object" into Google and
found that "an object is a
>> >> variable (data) with methods" is a pretty good definition.
>> >
>> >I think I'm getting the idea, the "methods" of a
variable are actually
>> >provided by the CPU not in some variable object.
>> >
>> >Geo.
>> >
>> 

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