From: "Geo" 

"Gregg N"  wrote in message
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> Which .h files?

umm.. all the ones I didn't write (like math.h)?


> C++ does strings.

Well I'm certainly no expert considering I've only started taking this
class but as I understand it a C++ string is actually a character array,
like "char bob[]" instead of an actual string like
"bob$". I know they are similar as I already wrote a bubblesort
routine but the teacher made a point to me that it's not a text string like
in other languages, that there is some significant difference although she
didn't explain it any further than that yet.

> Are you asking how do I find documentation for such a class? From
> experience, I know what is generally available as part of the standard
> library. When I need to look something up, I usually use the documentation
> that comes with whatever tool I am using. For Visual C++, I use either
MSDN
> (locally),

OK now go easy on me. Basically we've used 3 libs in class, ,
 and  so I'm sitting here wondering where
these come from
and how I find out what other ones are available in the standard visual
studio install and how I find out what functions they provide. If I'm
understanding you and Antti, that information is contained in MSDN so I
need to install that on my laptop along with the visual c++ I've already
installed? Ok that's easy.

But to use my example, suppose I'm looking for a function to find a string
within a string (knowing they aren't strings) how the heck do you go about
finding the function if it exists? Isn't there a list of some sort
somewhere for the basic set that appears to be included?

Geo.

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