Sams Teach Yourself C# 5.0 in 24 Hours

Hour 9. Using Strings and Regular Expressions

What You’ll Learn in This Hour

• Strings

• Mutable strings using StringBuilder

• Type formatting

• Regular expressions

As computer programming has evolved from being primarily concerned with performing complex numeric computations to providing solutions for a broader range of business problems, programming languages have shifted to focus more on string data and the manipulation of such data. String data is simply a logical sequence of individual characters. The System.String class, which encapsulates the data manipulation, sorting, and searching methods you most commonly perform on strings, enables C# to provide rich support for string data and manipulation.

Tip: String or string?

In C#, string ...