I will admit that the textbook I learned C++ from didn't cover C-style string manipulation (other than to say it was error prone). It took a very long time for

I will admit that the textbook I learned C++ from didn't cover C-style string manipulation (other than to say it was error prone). It took a very long time for me to be comfortable doing any kind of string operation without first converting to a std::string. Nowadays I realize that there are often different answers to different questions, and it doesn't bother me.