17. Strings and Characters: A Deeper Look

I have made this letter longer than usual, because I lack the time to make it short.

—Blaise Pascal

The difference between the almost-right word and the right word is really a large matter—it’s the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.

—Mark Twain

Objectives

In this chapter you’ll learn:

Image To create and manipulate immutable character String objects of class String.

Image To create and manipulate mutable character string objects of class StringBuilder.

To manipulate character objects of structure ...

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