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Im trying to figure out how to reverse the string temp when I have the string read in binary numbers

istream& operator >>(istream& dat1d, binary& b1)    
    string temp; 
    dat1d >> temp;    
                What do you mean by "read in binary numbers"?  That the string will have something like "1100110"?  That you're reading a binary file off of disk?
– Max Lybbert
                Feb 10, 2011 at 0:15
I'm not sure what you mean by a string that contains binary numbers.  But for reversing a string (or any STL-compatible container), you can use std::reverse().  std::reverse() operates in place, so you may want to make a copy of the string first:
#include <algorithm>
#include <iostream>
#include <string>
int main()
    std::string foo("foo");
    std::string copy(foo);
    std::cout << foo << '\n' << copy << '\n';
    std::reverse(copy.begin(), copy.end());
    std::cout << foo << '\n' << copy << '\n';
                @MaxLybbert Yes, however, main() as it is implemented is not void  and should return a value. This is what @Wilhelm was trying to point out.
– karlphillip
                Dec 21, 2017 at 22:59
                I can add the "return 0", but it so happens that C++ has a special case for main: "if control reaches the end of main without encountering a return statement, the effect is that of executing return 0;" ( en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/main_function , 4th item on the special properties list).
– Max Lybbert
                Dec 22, 2017 at 14:51
EDIT: Elaborating as requested.
string::rbegin() and string::rend(), which stand for "reverse begin" and "reverse end" respectively, return reverse iterators into the string. These are objects supporting the standard iterator interface (operator* to dereference to an element, i.e. a character of the string, and operator++ to advance to the "next" element), such that rbegin() points to the last character of the string, rend() points to the first one, and advancing the iterator moves it to the previous character (this is what makes it a reverse iterator).
Finally, the constructor we are passing these iterators into is a string constructor of the form:
template <typename Iterator>
string(Iterator first, Iterator last);
which accepts a pair of iterators of any type denoting a range of characters, and initializes the string to that range of characters.
                On your second line, did you mean to type "string reverse(.....)" instead of "string reversed(.....)" ? In other words, should the word "reversed" be "reverse" ?
– Job_September_2020
                Jan 14, 2021 at 2:53
                @datdinhquoc They are new in C++11, see en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/string/basic_string/rbegin
– HighCommander4
                Jun 17, 2021 at 21:28