c++ sizeof( string )

Question

#include 
#include 

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
   cout << "size of String " << sizeof( string );
               


        

Answer 1

A string object contains a pointer to a buffer on the heap that contains the actual string data. (It can also contain other implementation-specific meta-information, but yours apparently doesn't.) So you're getting the size of that pointer, not the size of the array it points to.