const_iterator 的 ++ 运算符如何用于向量<string>在 C++ 标准库中？

Question

String size is not fixed. How they made iterator knows where to point to after the increment?

#include <iostream>
#include <string>
#include <vector>

using namespace std;

int main()
{
  vector<string> myVector{"ABC", "DEF"};

  for (auto p = myVector.begin(); p != myVector.end(); ++p)
    cout << *p << endl;
}

Answer 1

In fact, sizeof(std::string) is fixed. The actual string data (which is not of fixed size) is stored elsewhere in memory, and the std::string object only contains a pointer to it.

So an iterator over std::vector<std::string> can simply advance by sizeof(std::string) bytes at a time.