While C++ is one of the most modern programming languages in the world, in 2024, it still has problems with strings and conversions. One of the problems is new std::basic_string types, it is hard to display and convert them. For example, there are no perfect conversion methods between basic_strings, especially, from higher character type strings to lower character type strings, such as conversion…
How can I convert std::string to a std::wstring in a modern C++ app? How can I convert single byte string to 2-bytes wide string? Here are the answers with C++ examples.
In Modern C++, there are several typedefs for common character types are provided: Wide string types…
How can we convert one string to char array in Modern C++? Here are the answers with C++ software examples.
Generally, as an introduction to C++, in addition to int, float, double there is another data type, string that we use for alphanumeric variables. In C++ there are…
What do we mean by “wide string” in a C++ app? What is a u16string? How can I convert a u16string to a wstring? Let’s answer these questions.
What is a wstring?
Wide strings are the string class for ‘wide’ characters represented by wstring. Alphanumeric characters are stored and displayed in string form. In other words wstring stores alphanumeric text with 2 or…
