Is is it a good way of printing string using

Question

pointers ? void printString(string *s){
cout<<*s;
}
int main(){
string name="Honey Bansal";
printString(&name);
return 0;
}

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But using pointers , we can avoid making copies of string .

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You are using a point to a pointer to a string there

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Only some types are copied

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That's the C style way for preventing unnecessary copies. Use T const& in C++: void f(std::string const& str) { // do something with `str` }

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Script Kiddie · Accepted Answer

You would want to free the memory as well and if you are using c++ you don't really need to use pointers for strings. Please correct me if I am wrong

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