Section 9.15 Vocabulary
- character:
- A single letter, digit, punctuation mark, or other symbol in a string.
- char:
- The C++ data type for a single character.
- string:
- A sequence of characters; the primary data type for text.
- object
- A code entity that bundles data and functions that operate on that data.
- index:
- An integer variable or value used to indicate a character in a string.
- ASCII:
- A character encoding standard that uses 7 or 8 bits to represent characters, allowing for 128 or 256 unique symbols.
- Unicode:
- An international standard for representing characters in most of the world’s languages.
- empty string:
- The string
"", which contains no characters and has a length of zero. - enhanced (range-based) for loop:
- An alternative syntax for traversing the characters of a string (or the elements of other collections).
- escape sequence:
- A sequence of characters that represents a special character in a string, such as newline (
\n) or tab (\t). - newline:
- A special character signifying the end of a line of text. Also known as “line ending”, “end of line” (EOL), or “line break”.
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