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C# 12 and .NET 8 – Modern Cross-Platform Development Fundamentals

You're reading from   C# 12 and .NET 8 – Modern Cross-Platform Development Fundamentals Start building websites and services with ASP.NET Core 8, Blazor, and EF Core 8

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781837635870
Length 828 pages
Edition 8th Edition
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Preface 1. Hello, C#! Welcome, .NET! 2. Speaking C# FREE CHAPTER 3. Controlling Flow, Converting Types, and Handling Exceptions 4. Writing, Debugging, and Testing Functions 5. Building Your Own Types with Object-Oriented Programming 6. Implementing Interfaces and Inheriting Classes 7. Packaging and Distributing .NET Types 8. Working with Common .NET Types 9. Working with Files, Streams, and Serialization 10. Working with Data Using Entity Framework Core 11. Querying and Manipulating Data Using LINQ 12. Introducing Web Development Using ASP.NET Core 13. Building Websites Using ASP.NET Core Razor Pages 14. Building and Consuming Web Services 15. Building User Interfaces Using Blazor 16. Epilogue 17. Index

Working with text

One of the other most common types of data for variables is text. The most common types in .NET for working with text are shown in Table 8.2:

Namespace Type Description
System Char Storage for a single text character
System String Storage for multiple text characters
System.Text StringBuilder Efficiently manipulates strings
System.Text.RegularExpressions Regex Efficiently pattern-matches strings
Table 8.2: Common .NET types for working with text

Getting the length of a string

Let's explore some common tasks when working with text; for example, sometimes you need to find out the length of a piece of text stored in a string variable:

  1. Use your preferred code editor to add a new Console App / console project named WorkingWithText to the Chapter08 solution.
  2. In the WorkingWithText project, in Program.cs, delete the existing statements and then add statements to define a variable to store the name of the city London, and then write its name and length to...
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