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String Concatenation and Methods

Strings can be combined using the + operator. The length() method returns the number of characters. String is a class from the Standard Library that provides many useful methods for text manipulation.

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#include <iostream>
#include <string>
using namespace std;
 
int main() {
string first = "Hello";
string second = "World";
string combined = first + " " + second;
cout << combined << endl;
cout << "Length: " << combined.length() << endl;
return 0;
}
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#include <string>
Header required for std::string class
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string combined = first + " " + second;
Concatenates strings with a space between them
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combined.length()
Returns the total character count of the string