Editing String (computer science) (section)

==== Strings as records ====
Many languages, including object-oriented ones, implement strings as [[record (computer science)|record]]s with an internal structure like:

<syntaxhighlight lang="cpp">
class string {
  size_t length;
  char *text;
};
</syntaxhighlight>

However, since the implementation is usually [[information hiding|hidden]], the string must be accessed and modified through member functions. <code>text</code> is a pointer to a dynamically allocated memory area, which might be expanded as needed. See also [[string (C++)]].