It may be hard to believe, but for much of the time of C++’s original development, it did not have a string class. Writing such a class was somewhat of a rite o

It may be hard to believe, but for much of the time of C++’s original development, it did not have a string class. Writing such a class was somewhat of a rite of passage, and everyone made their own. The reason behind this was partially the prolonged attempt to make a class that was everything for everyone.