C Soup To Nuts: Part 11: Creating and Manipulating Strings

1. C# Soup To Nuts:Part 11: Creating and Manipulating Strings William J. Steele MSDN Developer Evangelist Microsoft Corporation http://blogs.msdn.com/wsteele

2. What We Will Cover Strings Working with Strings StringBuilder class

3. Strings A simple series of characters string s = �Hello, World!�; Strings can be �added� together s = �Hello, � + �World!�; Strings are Immutable Once created, can not be changed New strings are created instead

4. Demonstration One Building Strings

5. Working With Strings Adding strings s += �New Text�; Parsing Strings s.Substring(2, 5); Escape Characters \n = new line \t = tab \\ = backslash @ Symbol s = @�\\literal charcters\n\t\\�;

6. Additional String Methods SubString() Parse string Repalce() Replace part of string with new text Split() Split string into multiple strings based on char Trim() Remove extraneous spaces ToUpper() and ToLower() Change Case Of Text

7. Demonstration Two Working With Strings

8. StringBuilder Class String Concatenation Builds New Strings StringBuilder builds buffer first StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(); sb.Append(�Hello, �); sb.Append(�World!�); string s = sb.ToString();

9. Demonstration Three StringBuilder class

10. Summary Strings Working with Strings StringBuilder class

11. Next Week: Exception Handling Microsoft� Visual C#� .NET is the newest programming language from Microsoft. So far in this series, we've been exploring the basics of C# and Microsoft� Visual C# 2005 Express Edition. In this webcast we will examine specific C# language features. We will learn how handles unexpected problems with our application via the robust Exception Handling system built into the .NET Framework. We will learn about Try-Catch blocks and how to correctly handle the different types of exceptions that your application can experience.

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