Chapter 2. Data Manipulation
Most applications need to manipulate some form of data. The Microsoft .NET Framework provides many techniques that simplify or improve the efficiency of common data-manipulation tasks. The recipes in this chapter cover the following:
Manipulating the contents of strings efficiently to avoid the overhead of automatic string creation due to the immutability of strings (recipe 2-1)
Representing basic data types using different encoding schemes or as byte arrays to allow you to share data with external systems (recipes 2-2, 2-3, and 2-4)
Validating user input and manipulating string values using regular expressions (recipes 2-5 and 2-6)
Creating System.DateTime or System.DateTimeOffset objects from string values, such as ...
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