Why do you prefer char* instead of string, in C++?

Question

I\'m a C programmer trying to write c++ code. I heard string in C++ was better than char* in terms of security, performance, etc, however sometimes it

Answer 1

Implementations of std::string hide the memory usage from you. If you're writing performance-critical code, or you actually have to worry about memory fragmentation, then using char* can save you a lot of headaches.

For anything else though, the fact that std::string hides all of this from you makes it so much more usable.