Include <cstring> and take a look at the high-level functions there.
Code:
string s1, s2; // Empty strings
string s3 = "Yo dude"; // Initialized
string s4("I am cool"); // Also initialized
s2 = "C++ sucks"; // Assigning to a string
s1 = s3 + " " + s4; // Combining strings
s1 += "8"; // Appending to a string
"There are libraries for everything!" (C++ librarian)
