4 files changed, 9 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/absl/flags/internal/commandlineflag.h b/absl/flags/internal/commandlineflag.h
index e91ddde633df..9a740d5744f8 100644
--- a/absl/flags/internal/commandlineflag.h
+++ b/absl/flags/internal/commandlineflag.h
@@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ class CommandLineFlag {
   // Returns name of the file where this flag is defined.
   virtual std::string Filename() const = 0;
   // Returns name of the flag's value type for some built-in types or empty
-  // std::string.
+  // string.
   virtual absl::string_view Typename() const = 0;
   // Returns help message associated with this flag.
   virtual std::string Help() const = 0;
@@ -163,7 +163,7 @@ class CommandLineFlag {
   // or nullptr if flag does not support saving and restoring a state.
   virtual std::unique_ptr<FlagStateInterface> SaveState() = 0;
 
-  // Sets the value of the flag based on specified std::string `value`. If the flag
+  // Sets the value of the flag based on specified string `value`. If the flag
   // was successfully set to new value, it returns true. Otherwise, sets `error`
   // to indicate the error, leaves the flag unchanged, and returns false. There
   // are three ways to set the flag's value:
@@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ class CommandLineFlag {
                              flags_internal::ValueSource source,
                              std::string* error) = 0;
 
-  // Checks that flags default value can be converted to std::string and back to the
+  // Checks that flags default value can be converted to string and back to the
   // flag's value type.
   virtual void CheckDefaultValueParsingRoundtrip() const = 0;
 
diff --git a/absl/flags/internal/flag.cc b/absl/flags/internal/flag.cc
index a944e16e5083..a12fe7c5e3d4 100644
--- a/absl/flags/internal/flag.cc
+++ b/absl/flags/internal/flag.cc
@@ -408,7 +408,7 @@ void FlagImpl::CheckDefaultValueParsingRoundtrip() const {
     ABSL_INTERNAL_LOG(
         FATAL,
         absl::StrCat("Flag ", Name(), " (from ", Filename(),
-                     "): std::string form of default value '", v,
+                     "): string form of default value '", v,
                      "' could not be parsed; error=", error));
   }
 
diff --git a/absl/flags/internal/flag.h b/absl/flags/internal/flag.h
index 307b737752c9..344e31f65073 100644
--- a/absl/flags/internal/flag.h
+++ b/absl/flags/internal/flag.h
@@ -439,7 +439,7 @@ class FlagImpl {
       ABSL_EXCLUSIVE_LOCKS_REQUIRED(*DataGuard());
   // Flag initialization called via absl::call_once.
   void Init();
-  // Attempts to parse supplied `value` std::string. If parsing is successful,
+  // Attempts to parse supplied `value` string. If parsing is successful,
   // returns new value. Otherwise returns nullptr.
   std::unique_ptr<void, DynValueDeleter> TryParse(absl::string_view value,
                                                   std::string* err) const
diff --git a/absl/flags/internal/usage.cc b/absl/flags/internal/usage.cc
index ff9071619484..a9a5cba94de8 100644
--- a/absl/flags/internal/usage.cc
+++ b/absl/flags/internal/usage.cc
@@ -134,14 +134,14 @@ class FlagHelpPrettyPrinter {
         first_line_(true) {}
 
   void Write(absl::string_view str, bool wrap_line = false) {
-    // Empty std::string - do nothing.
+    // Empty string - do nothing.
     if (str.empty()) return;
 
     std::vector<absl::string_view> tokens;
     if (wrap_line) {
       for (auto line : absl::StrSplit(str, absl::ByAnyChar("\n\r"))) {
         if (!tokens.empty()) {
-          // Keep line separators in the input std::string.
+          // Keep line separators in the input string.
           tokens.push_back("\n");
         }
         for (auto token :
@@ -156,13 +156,13 @@ class FlagHelpPrettyPrinter {
     for (auto token : tokens) {
       bool new_line = (line_len_ == 0);
 
-      // Respect line separators in the input std::string.
+      // Respect line separators in the input string.
       if (token == "\n") {
         EndLine();
         continue;
       }
 
-      // Write the token, ending the std::string first if necessary/possible.
+      // Write the token, ending the string first if necessary/possible.
       if (!new_line && (line_len_ + token.size() >= max_line_len_)) {
         EndLine();
         new_line = true;