I need to buy some books for Linux Programming Please,tell me which are the best And,what does this file contain <string.h> , it is not included in the ANSI/ISO C++ ? And aren't there a variable type string ? For example,

string mysting; ?

Thanks

I like these two books:

Stroustrup, B.: The C++ programming language, third edition, Addison-Wesley, 1997
Eckel, B.: Thinking in C++, 2nd edition, Prentice-Hall, 2000

<string.h> is C

what exactly does this string.h do ?

for a good string reference check out the following link
http://www.msoe.edu/eecs/ce/courseinfo/stl/string.htm

if you want a good thread on c++ books check this out.
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=163131

<string.h> is deprecated file header name.

<cstring> is C.

<string> is C++.


http://www.advancedlinuxprogramming.com

http://www.mindview.com

They are free. If you want to spend money.... C++ How To Program ( Deitel & Deitel ) is good although you will get MSVC++ compiler. The book teach you C++ standard...... not os spesific.....

Don't forget search the books in http://www.wrox.com .

I have to say nothing more than the others; perhaps only clarifying a few things:
Stroustrup's book is a very good suggestion, as he's the father of C++ language, so that he introduces not only the language, but he also does it in the way a C++ programmer should think.
The Eckel's book goes exactly in the same direction (you can see it also from the title), and that's the most important thing in a programming language or in any other laguage, also human: thinking natively in that language.
The file string.h is an (now they say) old C library needed to perform library operations on memory and strings (typically, string and memory concatenation, copy, movement, setting, comparison, searching, etc.).
It should come with any C/C++ development package, as it is ANSI C, and you can easily have a look at it with any editor as it is an ASCII file, BUT don't edit it! You will find mainly function declarations and the definition of the size_t type.
Hope it helped!

Marino

Thank you guys