googletest doc C string and string

Question

I am reading Googletest doc, and I am learning that there is one syntax for comparing string, and another for comparing C string. I dont see what is referred to as C string and as string. How are these different?

Answer 1

If you try to use ASSERT_EQ to C-Strings, you only compare two pointers, but not really null-terminated C-Strings. For that exists ASSERT_STREQ syntax.

Answer 2

std::string is often called C++ string. Using strings like

 const char *text = "text";

is called CStrings.

much more information can be found here:

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