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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

  • for managing strings

  • MFC's class , 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.

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