String

A string is a sequence of characters.

Related concepts:  ValueTypeSequence

Closest Wikipedia entry:  String (computer science) — In computer programming, a string is traditionally a sequence of characters, either as a literal constant or as some kind of variable. The latter may allow its elements to be mutated and the length changed, or it may be fixed (after creation). A string is generally considered as a data type and is often implemented as an array data structure of bytes (or words) that stores a sequence of elements, typically characters, using some character encoding.

Misconceptions about String

17 documented Misconceptions

ArithmeticPlusPrecedes — Java

Addition has higher precedence than string concatenation

CharNotNumeric — Java

Char is not a numeric type

CharType — JavaScript

A single character is of type char

IdentifierAsStringInBracketNotation — JavaScript

An identifier used to access a property with the bracket notation is treated as a string

LiteralString — Java

When passing a literal string as argument to a method, no quotes are needed

NoCallOnStringLiteral — Java

One cannot invoke methods on String literals

NoCharEscape — Java

\ is a normal character in char and String literals

NoSequenceRepetition — Python

There is no operator that repeats sequences

NoStringToString — Java

One cannot invoke toString() on a String

PlusConcatenatesNumbers — Python

The plus operator can concatenate strings and numbers

SingleQuoteString — Java

String literals can be in single quotes

StringLengthField — Java

One can know the length of a String object by accessing its length field

StringLiteralNoObject — Java

One needs to call the String constructor to get a String object from a literal

StringPlusStringifiesExpression — Java

String concatenation stringifies non-String operand expressions

StringRepetitionOperator — Java

The multiplication operator can repeat a String a number of times

StringRepetitionOperator — JavaScript

One can repeat a String by multiplying it with a number

ToStringPrints — Java

Invoking toString() prints something