How to Access Individual Characters in a C++ String?

C++ has in its definition a way to represent a sequence of characters as an object of the class. This class is called std:: string. The string class stores the characters as a sequence of bytes with the functionality of allowing access to the single-byte character. In this article, we are going to learn how to access individual characters in a C++ String.

Example

Input:
myString = "GeeksforGeeks";
Output:
4th Character = k

Access Individual Characters in a C++ String

In C++, you can access individual characters in a std::string using the array subscript [] operator. We need to just pass the index between the [] operator. Indexing of string starts with 0.

C++ Program to Access Individual Characters in a String

First character: H
Third character: l

Time complexity: O(1)
Space Complexity: O(1)