Beginning C# 2008 Objects: From Concept to Code

1.7. Strings

We'll discuss one more important predefined type in this chapter: the string type.

NOTE

Just a reminder: unlike the other C# types introduced in this chapter, string isn't a value type; it's a reference type, as we mentioned earlier. For purposes of this introductory discussion of strings, this observation isn't important; the significance of the string type's being a reference type will be discussed in Chapter 13.

A string represents a sequence of Unicode characters. There are several ways to create and initialize a string variable. The easiest and most commonly used way is to declare a variable of type string and to assign the variable a value using a string literal, which is any text enclosed in double quotes:

string name = ...