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Strings and JSON
Few can touch the magic String, and noisy Fame is proud to win them...
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1809–1894
13.1. Text Strings
The manipulation of strings is one of the most common processes performed by most computer applications. By some estimates, over 30% of the typical program is devoted to working with strings. Hopefully whatever language you might choose to write your programs in will provide many varied and robust string manipulation functions and methods. In this aspect, JavaScript will not disappoint you. JavaScript provides over 20 methods associated with the string object. However, even this seemingly abundant functionality will usually turn out to be not quite enough.
Remember, a good API will allow a programmer ...
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