Could somebody explain what exactly a string is.

Answer 1

A string is an array of chars

Answer 2

simply string is text

Answer 3

ty

Answer 4

"A string is an array of chars", with the last element of that array is NULL character.

Answer 5

Char is a single letter or a no sometimes. But string can only be letter or group of letters..

Answer 6

@Bheeshma no man, var s = "123" is a string

Answer 7

Yeah.. I agree

Answer 8

We can convert integer to string in java..

Answer 9

@Bheeshma and in c++ and in js and in python and I guess a lot more

Answer 10

From the c# course
arrays & strings
working with strings

Strings

It’s common to think of strings as arrays of characters. In reality, strings in C# are objects.
When you declare a string variable, you basically instantiate an object of type String.

If strings were arrays of chars they would not have all these nice methods like "Length", "Contains" , "EndsWith"