Chapter 5. C# Text Manipulation and File I/O

Topics in This Chapter

  • Characters and Unicode: By default, .NET stores a character as a 16-bit Unicode character. This enables an application to support international character sets—a technique referred to as localization.

  • String Overview: In .NET, strings are immutable. To use strings efficiently, it is necessary to understand what this means and how immutability affects string operations.

  • String Operations: In addition to basic string operations, .NET supports advanced formatting techniques for numbers and dates.

  • StringBuilder: The StringBuilder class offers an efficient alternative to concatenation for constructing screens.

  • Regular Expressions: The .NET Regex class provides an engine that uses regular ...

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