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Inside the String

Explore string fundamentals in C#, including how to initialize and access characters, concatenate strings, and perform string manipulations such as reversing strings, shifting characters, and checking for palindromes. This lesson helps you develop a foundational understanding of handling text data in your C# programs.

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Collection

A collection is a general term used to group multiple values into a single unit. We use collections all the time in the real world―a book is a collection of pages, a train is a collection of train cars, and a wardrobe is a collection of clothes.

String

A string is a collection of characters, mostly treated as a single unit. A string is used to store text values like a name, address, message, etc.

Initializing the string

The following program demonstrates the initialization of a string:

C#
class Test
{
    static void Main()
    {
        string string1 = "It is a string";
        System.Console.WriteLine(string1);
    }
}

In line 5, we declare a string using double quotes "".

Accessing the characters in a string

C# allows us to access individual characters inside a ...