November 2008
Beginner
696 pages
17h 43m
English
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Manipulating Strings
The String class provides a host of methods for comparing, searching, and manipulating strings, the most important of which are shown in Table 15-1.
Table 15-1. String class properties and methods
Method or property | Explanation |
|---|---|
| Property that returns the string indexer |
| Overloaded public static method that compares two strings |
| Public static method that creates a new string by copying another |
| Overloaded public static and instance methods that determine whether two strings have the same value |
| Overloaded public static method that formats a string using a format specification |
| Property that returns the number of characters in the instance |
| Right-aligns the characters in the string, padding to the left with spaces or a specified character |
| Left-aligns the characters in the string, padding to the right with spaces or a specified character |
| Deletes the specified number of characters |
| Divides a string, returning the substrings delimited by the specified characters |
| Indicates whether the string starts with the specified characters |
| Retrieves a substring |
| Copies the characters from the string to a character array |
| Returns a copy of the string in lowercase |
| Returns a copy of the string in uppercase |
| Removes all occurrences of a set of specified characters from the beginning and end of the string |
| Behaves like |
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