Strings: The Basics of Self-Induced Agony

Strings are sequences of characters, like words or characters. They're the building blocks of text, the DNA of data, the—

—the thing you'll spend most of your programming career trying to debug.

So, what's the deal with strings? Why should you care?

Types of Strings

• Character Encoding 101: Because Unicode is Hard
• Regular Expressions: For When You Want to Match Stuff
• Strings Are Not Sandwiches: A Guide to String Concatenation