A lightweight and educational reimplementation of the C++ std::string class for learning purposes. Built from scratch using only core C++ features — no STL string backend.

• Features
• Project Structure
• Getting Started
• Sample Output
• Skills Demonstrated
• Why This Project?
• Author
• License

• Manual dynamic memory management (new/delete)
• Deep copy and move semantics (Rule of Five)
• Initializer list support
• Substring, insert, erase, replace, and append
• Comparison operators: ==, !=, <, >, <=, >=
• Safe at(), find(), and substr() methods
• Operator overloading: +, +=, [], =
• Stream I/O with cin and cout
• Exception-safe operations

TextCloneProject/
├── include/ # Header files
│ └── text.h
├── src/ # Class implementation
│ └── text.cpp
├── tests/ # Usage examples
│ └── main.cpp
├── bin/ # Output binaries
├── Makefile # For build automation
└── README.md # You're reading it!

make # Builds the project
make run # Runs the demo
make clean # Cleans build files

#include "text.h"
int main() {
 text t1 = "Hello";
 text t2 = "World";
 text t3 = t1 + " " + t2;
 std::cout << "t3: " << t3 << std::endl;
}

t1: Hello
t2: World
t3 (t1 + t2): Hello World
Length of t3: 11
Capacity of t3: 12
...

• Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)
• Rule of Five in C++
• Operator Overloading
• Exception handling
• Manual Memory Management
• Header and Source File Separation

This project is part of my second-semester coursework at PUCIT, developed to master advanced C++ concepts like dynamic memory, object lifecycles, and class design without relying on the Standard Library string class.

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This project is licensed under the MIT License.