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Pstrings are Mutable

You can change the letters in an pstring one at a time using the [] operator on the left side of an assignment. For example,

  pstring greeting = "Hello, world!";
  greeting[0] = 'J';
  cout << greeting << endl;

produces the output Jello, world!.


Last Update: 2005-12-05