Strings

In JavaScript, the textual data is stored as strings\. There is no separate type for a single character\.

The internal format for strings is always UTF\-16, it is not tied to the page encoding\.

- There are 3 types of quotes\. Backticks allow a string to span multiple lines and embed expressions $\{…\}\. - We can use special characters, such as a line break \\n\. - To get a character, use: \[\] or at method\. - To get a substring, use: slice or substring\. - To lowercase/uppercase a string, use: toLowerCase/toUpperCase\. - To look for a substring, use: indexOf, or includes/startsWith/endsWith for simple checks\. - To compare strings according to the language, use: localeCompare, otherwise they are compared by character codes\.

There are several other helpful methods in strings:

- str\.trim – removes $“trims”$ spaces from the beginning and end of the string\. - str\.repeat$n$ – repeats the string n times\. - …and more to be found in the manual\.

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