don't you mean char*?
at the moment, for pure operations on char arrays, then string.h has some useful things, all beginning with str.
If you want ease of use, try the STL string class:

Code:
#include <iostream>
#include <string>

using namespace std;

void main() {
    string sMyStr = "A string";
    cout << sMyStr << endl;
}
there's lots of member functions to do what you need - the documentation's pretty good.