String not being printed by C++

Question

Sorry for the noob question, I\'m a newbie programmer and transitioning from C to C++. I could easily write a program to reverse a string in C the same way with minor change

Answer 1

While there are ways to iterate over a std::string and fill the contents of another, the overload of std::basic_string::operator= will replace the content of p (if any) with the content of s in a simple assignment. See std::basic_string::operator=

For example:

#include 
#include 

int main (void) {

    std::string s {}, p {};

    std::cout << "enter string: ";
    if (getline (std::cin, s)) {
        p = s;  /* simple assignment replaced content of p with content of s */
        std::cout << "string in p : " << p << '\n';
    }
}

Example Use/Output

$ ./bin/stringps
enter string: the string s
string in p : the string s