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Title: Rule 05. Characters and Strings (STR)  
Author: Aaron Ballman Sep 30, 2014
Last Changed by: David Svoboda Jun 25, 2025
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    Page: STR50-CPP. Guarantee that storage for strings has sufficient space for character data and the null terminator
    Page: STR51-CPP. Do not attempt to create a std::string from a null pointer
    Page: STR52-CPP. Use valid references, pointers, and iterators to reference elements of a basic_string
    Page: STR53-CPP. Range check element access
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