What's the difference between a String and a Char Array?

Answer 1

From the c# course

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

Yes the string object has a indexer but that does not make it a array.

Answer 2

as far as i know a string is an array of chars

Answer 3

I like to think of them more as a vector, but yes, they are an object.

Answer 4

in char array we can assign a single character per position. in string array we can assign many chars(string) per position. simple enough! 🙆