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Using String Header after IOstream header

Honest question here, what,s the point of declaring a #include <string> header when a #include <iostream> header was already declared. I always thought the string declaration is already available in the iostream standard library, except I have a wrong thought.

7th Jan 2017, 10:02 AM
Oluwaseun Prosper Popoola
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C++ in its beginnings didn't know how to work with strings. Strings used to be represented as arrays of characters. So, I assume, that's the reason why string declaration is not in iostream declaration - it was added later, and needed a whole new header for itself since C++ is not "made to" work with strings.
9th Jan 2017, 9:35 PM
Petra Stručić
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C++ doesn't work with strings
1st Feb 2017, 10:09 PM
Ryan Beheshtian
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