How to Declare string Variable?

Question

How Do I Declare a string or text type variable?

Answer 1

string some_var;

// then do dank stuff to the string, e.g.

cin >> some_var;

// or if you want to get the whole sentence including whitespaces,

getline(cin, some_var);

Answer 2

Hi Soumik,
you need to include strings by

#include<string>

than you can use

std::string str = “hello world“;

to declare a string variable named str.

(If you use “using namespace std;“, declaration is like

string str = “hello world“;

)