If you program in C, strings are just in your imagination. What you really have is a character pointer, and we all agree that a string is every character from that point up until one of the characters ...

That's (variable length character) strings, not just strings of varying lengths. What I am interested in is having string classes (and stream classes, if possible) whose character data is encoded in ...

Strings are vital to any game programming project. Strings are used for many important tasks, including outputting text, reading and writing data to and from files, multiplayer programming via sockets ...