How to use Arrays, with Strings

I'm a C++ programmer, who's still in the nest, and not yet found my wings. I was writing a Calendar program, and I discovered, that C++ does not support a string type. How do I make an Array, that will be able to store strings of characters?

I've thought of creating an enumerated data type, as the array type. While, it will work, for my Calendar, it won't work if say I was creating a database of the names of students in my class.

http://ift.tt/1NnnPZv I got; "error, 'string' does not name a type."