16. Strings and Characters
Objectives
In this chapter you’ll learn:
• To create and manipulate immutable character-string objects of class string
and mutable character-string objects of class StringBuilder
.
• To manipulate character objects of struct Char
.
• To use regular-expression classes Regex
and Match
.
• To iterate through matches to a regular expression.
• To use character classes to match any character from a set of characters.
• To use quantifiers to match a pattern multiple times.
• To search for patterns in text using regular expressions.
• To validate data using regular expressions and LINQ.
• To modify string
s using regular expressions and class Regex
.
The chief defect of Henry King Was chewing little bits of string.
—Hilaire ...
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