Basic String manipulation example

The following is a basic string manipulation example

//Program tested on Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 - Zahid Ghadialy
//This program intends to show basic string operations
#include<iostream>
#include<string>

using namespace std;

int main(void)
{
  //Lets ask for a name and make a banner to welcome the person
  //Adapted from Accelerated C++ by Andrew Koenig and Barbara Moo 
  string name;
  cout << "\nHello, what is your name? ";
  cin >> name;
  cout << "\n\n\n\n";
  string banner = "Welcome " + name; //String addition
  int bannerSize = banner.size(); //We use this size for everything
  string stars((bannerSize + 4), '*');
  string filler(bannerSize, ' ');
  cout << stars << endl;
  cout << "* " << filler << " *" << endl;
  cout << "* " << banner << " *" << endl;
  cout << "* " << filler << " *" << endl;
  cout << stars << endl;

  //Now lets check some basic string pointer operations
  cout<<"\n\n\n\n";
  string strs;
  {
    char *text="Some program";
    cout<<"text = "<<text<<endl;

    //copying char* to string
    strs = text;
    //text[0]='A'; //-- Not possible. Run time crash as text is const pointer
    cout<<"str locally = "<<strs<<endl;
  }
  cout<<"str globally = "<<strs<<endl;

  return 0;
}

The output is as follows: