Create and initialise

You can create an empty string view. You can also create a string view from an existing string, an existing character-array, or an existing string view.

The table below gives you an overview of the various ways of creating a string view.

Methods	Example
Empty string view	std::string_view str_view
From a C-string	std::string_view str_view2("C-string")
From a string view	std::string_view str_view3(str_view2)
From a C array	std::string_view str_view4(arr, sizeof arr)
From a string_view	str_view4= str_view3.substring(2, 3)
From a string view	std::string_view str_view5 = str_view4

Methods to create and set a string view