December 2019
Beginner
464 pages
10h 31m
English
In This Chapter
• Understand how text is treated in JavaScript
• Learn how to perform common string operations
• Look at the various string properties
I have a hunch that you are a human being. As a human, you probably relate really well with words. You speak it. You write it. You also tend to use a lot of it in the things you program. As it turns out, JavaScript likes words a whole lot as well. The letters and funny looking symbols that make up your (and my) language has a formal name. They are known as strings. Strings in JavaScript are nothing more than a series of characters. Despite how boring that sounds, accessing and manipulating these characters is a skill that we must be familiar with. That’s where this tutorial comes ...