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This chapter is about handling textual data much more effectively and safely than the mechanism provided by a C-style string stored in an array of char elements.
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Unless proverb itself is of type const std::string; if that’s the case, data() results in a const char* pointer as well. Refer to Chapter 11 for more details on the relation between const objects and member functions.
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Horton, I., Van Weert, P. (2018). Working with Strings. In: Beginning C++17. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3366-5_7
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