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Strings

0:46 with Jay McGavren

A string is just a series of text characters. Let's look at how to use them.

Whether it's written in C# or another language, almost all software needs to work with text.

Programming languages represent text in the form of strings. A string is just a series of text characters.

  • In a program, you can surround some text with double quotes to create a string.

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    [MUSIC] 0:00
    Whether it's written in C# or a different language, 0:04
    almost all software needs to work with text. 0:07
    Programming languages represent text in the form of strings. 0:10
    A string is just a series of text characters. 0:13
    A handy way to visualize strings is to picture a banner 0:17
    that you might hang at a party that strings together individual characters. 0:19
    In this course, we'll focus on just a few simple operations, 0:24
    including joining strings together, and adding data into the middle of a string. 0:27
    In a program, you can surround some texts with double quotes to create a string. 0:32
    We've worked with strings already. 0:36
    You've seen us assign them to variables and pass them to functions. 0:38
    Up next, 0:42
    we'll show you how to join strings together using string concatenation. 0:42

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