Question

How would I do a for loop on every character in string in C++?

Answer 1

1. Looping through the characters of a std::string, using a range-based for loop (it’s from C++11, already supported in recent releases of GCC, clang, and the VC11 beta):

   std::string str = ???;
   for(char& c : str) {
       do_things_with(c);
   }
   

2. Looping through the characters of a std::string with iterators:

   std::string str = ???;
   for(std::string::iterator it = str.begin(); it != str.end(); ++it) {
       do_things_with(*it);
   }
   

3. Looping through the characters of a std::string with an old-fashioned for-loop:

   std::string str = ???;
   for(std::string::size_type i = 0; i < str.size(); ++i) {
       do_things_with(str[i]);
   }
   

4. Looping through the characters of a null-terminated character array:

   char* str = ???;
   for(char* it = str; *it; ++it) {
       do_things_with(*it);
   }