Difference between revisions of "string manipulation"

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String manipulation (or string handling) is a mechanism or a library feature of most programming languages that provides the capabilities of performing various operations on strings. Typically such operations include performing basic tasks such as concatenation, copying, tokenization, searching, and replacing.

Typically, most programming languages provide a string data type that holds a sequence of characters. Such types often expose a set of functions and various other low-level functionality for manipulating the contained characters.

Below is a summary of various string manipulation facilities in different languages.