C# Strings-2
#13 In the last article we introduced “strings”, in this article we will look at “Access Strings” and “Special Characters” and finish the topic.
Access Strings
You can access the characters in a string by referring to its index number inside square brackets [].
This example prints the first character in myString:
Note: String indexes start with 0: [0] is the first character. [1] is the second character, etc.
This example prints the second character (1) in myString:
You can also find the index position of a specific character in a string, by using the IndexOf() method:
Another useful method is Substring(), which extracts the characters from a string, starting from the specified character position/index, and returns a new string. This method is often used together with IndexOf() to get the specific character position:
Strings — Special Characters
Because strings must be written within quotes, C# will misunderstand this string, and generate an error:
The solution to avoid this problem, is to use the backslash escape character.
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The backslash (\) escape character turns special characters into string characters:
The sequence \" inserts a double quote in a string:
The sequence \' inserts a single quote in a string:
The sequence \\ inserts a single backslash in a string:
Other useful escape characters in C# are:
I’ll end this article here, and in the next article we’ll talk about “Booleans” . Stay with the code.
