In Brief

  • A string is a sequence of characters.

  • Mono provides outstanding classes for managing strings.

  • One Unicode character needs more than just one byte of storage.

  • Strings can be split into an array.

  • Regular expressions can be used for parsing strings.

  • With regular expressions, you can perform pattern matching.

  • Precompiling regular expressions leads to better performance.

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