[strings.general]

This Clause describes components for manipulating sequences of any non-array trivially copyable standard-layout ([basic.types.general]) type T where is_trivially_default_constructible_v<T> is true.

Such types are called char-like types, and objects of char-like types are called char-like objects or simply characters.

The following subclauses describe a character traits class, string classes, and null-terminated sequence utilities, as summarized in Table 86 .

Table 86 — Strings library summary [tab:strings.summary]

🔗	Subclause	Header
🔗 [char.traits]	Character traits	<string>
🔗 [string.view]	String view classes	<string_view>
🔗 [string.classes]	String classes	<string>
🔗 [c.strings]	Null-terminated sequence utilities	<cstring>