C# String Manipulation

[Jim McGivney]

Does anyone know of a concise article that covers string manipulation, such
as insert, join, pad, etc.
Thanks,
Jim

 

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

Does anyone know of a concise article that covers string manipulation, such
as insert, join, pad, etc.

I don't, but the basics are:

o Strings themselves are immutable. All the operations such as
Substring, PadLeft, PadRight etc return a reference to a *new* string
with the appropriate data in.

o To avoid making multiple copies of data, if you're doing lots of
operations without needing the intermediate results as strings,
consider using a StringBuilder.

 

[Peter Bromberg [C# MVP]]

I'd start here in the MSDN documentation:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...us/cpref/html/frlrfsystemstringclasstopic.asp
Peter

 

[Michael A. Covington]

Here's a good book on it, apparently out of print already, but still
available used:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1861008236/covingtoninnovat

 

[Jay B. Harlow [MVP - Outlook]]

Jim,
Charles Petzold's book "Programming Microsoft Windows with Microsoft Visual
Basic .NET" from MS Press, has an appendix on Strings and an appendix on
Streams that I find to be good concise articles on Strings & Streams.

There is a C# version of the above book available, I would expect the same
appendixes.

Hope this helps
Jay