Why should one use std::string over c-style strings in C++?

Question

\"One should always use std::string over c-style strings(char *)\" is advice that comes up for almost every source code posted here. While the

Answer 1

3) The advice always use string of course must be taken with a pinch of common sense. String literals are const char[], and if you pass a literal to a function that takes a const char* (for example std::ifstream::open()) there's absolutely no point wrapping it in std::string.