“String subscript out of range” error when changing from character array to string?

Question

I\'m starting to use strings in place of character arrays and am encountering an error when I change one of my character arrays defined with a size of 5 to a string. The err

Answer 1

newWord[k]

The size of the newWord string is zero. The behavior of indexing beyond the end of a std::string is not defined.

You may need to resize the string, thus:

newWord.resize(5);