Library cpp-string

What if c++ strings where as easy to use as Python strings?

Let's just use c++ strings as are Python ones, with same API or as similar API as possible.
Library cpp-strings is fully templated. Just download header file cppstrings.h and put it anywhere in your project. Notice: all of its stuff is declared and defined in namespace pcs - which stands for Pythonic C++ Strings.

• The templated class pcs::CppStringT<> defines all constructors and methods that implement the equivalent of Python strings API.
• Class pcs::CppString specializes the templated class with char characters.
• Class pcs::CppWString specializes the templated class with wchar_t characters.

cpp-strings is implemented with the currently most recent c++ standard available with gcc, clang and msvc c++ compilers, i.e. standard c++20.

• directory cpp-strings contains the header file cppstring.h.
  This is the header file to include in your projects.
• directory cpp-strings-tests contains the unit test file cpp-strings-tests.cpp
  This file tests all the library stuff. It is a valuable code container with so many examples of use of the library, the classes, the methods and the functions it defines.

The code has been developed using VS2022 IDE. As such, unitary tests have been coded using Microsoft Visual Studio Cpp Unit Test Framework. The related VS project is provided with this library.

Notice: no clang, gcc or msvc specific declarations or goodies have been use to code library cpp-strings. It should then be compilable with any of these compilers. To be able to use it with your project, just ensure that the c++ standard used with you favorite compiler is c++20:

• options -std=c++20 or -std=c++latest for clang and gcc (v. 10 and above),
  or option -std=c++2a for clang and gcc (v. 9 and earlier);
• options /std=c++20 or /std=c++latest for Visual Studio 2019 and later.

If you want to run the unitary tests, well, use the last version of Visual Studio (i.e. VS 2022, by July 2025). The Community free version will truly be fine.
The vcproject associated with the unit tests in cpp-strings is already configured to use the option flag /std:c++latest since the implemented code uses a very few but very useful c++23 goodies.

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Library cpp-strings
"What if c++ strings where as easy to use as Python strings?"

Copyright (C) 2023-2025 Philippe Schmouker
contact - ph (dot) schmouker (at) gmail (dot) com

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the Free Software Foundation,  either version 3  of the License,  or
(at your option) any later version.

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