Which string classes to use in C++?

Question

we have a multi-threaded desktop application in C++ (MFC). Currently developers use either CString or std::string, probably depending on their mood. So we\'d like to choose a s

Answer 1

I would advise using std::basic_string as your general string template base unless there is a good reason to do otherwise. I say basic_string because if you are handling 16-bit characters you would use wstring.

If you are going to use TCHAR you should probably define tstring as basic_string and may wish to implement a traits class for it too to use functions like _tcslen etc.