Visual Basic 2005 for Programmers: Deitel Developer Series, Second Edition

16.3. String Constructors

Class String provides eight constructors for initializing Strings. Figure 16.1 demonstrates three of the constructors.

Figure 16.1. String constructors

1 ' Fig. 16.1: StringConstructor.vb 2 ' Demonstrating String class constructors. 3 4 Module StringConstructor 5 Sub Main() 6 Dim originalString, string1, string2, _ 7 string3, string4 As String 8 Dim characterArray() As Char = _ 9 {"b"c, "i"c, "r"c, "t"c, "h"c, " "c, "d"c, "a"c, "y"c} 10 11 ' string initialization 12 originalString = "Welcome to VB programming!" 13 string1 = originalString 14 string2 = New String(characterArray) 15 string3 = New String(characterArray, 6, 3) 16 string4 = New String("C"c, 5) 17 18 Console.WriteLine("string1 = " & """" & string1 & ...