Strings
Character Types
String Types
std::string | std::basic_string<char> | C++98 |
std::wstring | std::basic_string<wchar_t> | C++98 |
std::u16string | std::basic_string<char16_t> | C++11 |
std::u32string | std::basic_string<char32_t> | C++11 |
Character Literals
\n, \nn, \nnn – octal value
\xnn… – hexadecimal value (char
, wchar_t
, char16_t
, char32_t
)
\unnnn – Unicode BMP code point (no surrogate pairs)
\Unnnnnnnn – Unicode code point (may map to more than one code unit)
String Literals
“” | const char[] | | C++98 |
L“” | const wchar_t[] | | C++98 |
u8“” | const char[] | UTF-8 | C++11 |
u“” | const char16_t[] | UTF-16 | C++11 |
U“” | const char32_t[] | UTF-32 | C++11 |
Additionally, R“<delimiter>…<delimiter>”
for “raw” literals.