Difference between <cstring> and <string>

The cstring header provides functions for dealing with C-style strings — null-terminated arrays of characters. This includes functions like strlen and strcpy. It's the C++ version of the classic string.h header from C.

The string header provides the std::string class and related functions and operators.

The headers have similar names, but they're not really related beyond that. They cover separate tasks.

<cstring> has the C string code from the C header string.h. C++ has a convention where C headers have the same base name, except for a leading c and no trailing .h. All the contents are available under the std:: namespace.

<string> has the standard library std::string and related functions

In C++, you wouldn't use #include <somefile.h>, but instead #include <somefile>. Now C++ has its string classes in <string>, but the c-string functions are also available, which would be in <string.h>. C++ uses for 'traditional' c- include files. Therefore, <cstring> and <string>

http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/clibrary/cstring/