Can I conclude that bool can even analyze strings as true or false?

Question

https://www.sololearn.com/discuss/550449/?ref=app

The following problem I had the day before yesterday was solved only when I interchanged the bool and the int parameters in the first constructor...

Thus I think that the bool data type was also reading strings and analyzing it, as the 1st constructor was being invoked...

So, why is this happening? How does bool analyze a string as true or false? Is it based on size? Or on first character?

Answer 1

any value that is not 0 is considered true.

Answer 2

https://code.sololearn.com/cPtK3YXT1rmm/?ref=app

Answer 3

@jay
Wow. Even an empty string is shown as true...

Answer 4

@Jay
Ok. So what string can be rendered false?