Learning C#

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 17-1.

Table 17-1. String class methods

Method or property	Explanation
Chars	Property that returns the string indexer
Compare()	Overloaded public static method that compares two strings
Copy()	Public static method that creates a new string by copying another
Equals()	Overloaded public static and instance method that determines if two strings have the same value
Format()	Overloaded public static method that formats a string using a format specification
Length	Property that returns the number of characters in the instance
PadLeft()	Right-aligns the characters in the string, padding to the left with spaces or a specified character
PadRight()	Left-aligns the characters in the string, padding to the right with spaces or a specified character
Remove()	Deletes the specified number of characters
Split()	Divides a string, returning the substrings delimited by the specified characters
StartsWith()	Indicates if the string starts with the specified characters
Substring()	Retrieves a substring
ToCharArray()	Copies the characters from the string to a character array
ToLower()	Returns a copy of the string in lowercase
ToUpper()	Returns a copy of the string in uppercase
Trim()	Removes all occurrences of a set of specified characters from beginning and end of the string ...