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String Handling

In computer programming,

• A string is a sequence of characters

• It is used to store text.


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• Pseudocode string starts at position 1 on the other


hand Python strings start at position 0
Some examples of strings are:

• It contains: (A-Z, 0-9, special characters such as  “[email protected]”


 “Asad123”
!,@,#,$,%)
 “Cgsgottalent”
 “Programming”
 “Henry”
 “Hi Henry”
String Handling(LENGTH)
String manipulation methods are usually provided in
programming languages by library routines.

Most programming languages support many different string


handling methods.
len()
Length : To find the number of characters in the string.

• For example: “Computer Science” has 16 characters as


spaces are also counted as a character.
Python code –
Pseudocode -
len(“Computer Science”)
LENGTH(“Computer Science”) returns 16
MyString = “Science”
MyString = “Science”
len(MyString)
LENGTH(MyString) returns 8
String Handling(SUBSTRING)

String handling substring indicates -

• To extract a part of a string.

• SUBSTRING(“value”, “start index”, ”no of characters”)

• For example: “Science” could be extracted from


“Computer Science”

Pseudocode -
SUBSTRING(“Computer Science”, 10, 7) Python code – “Computer Science”[9:16]
MyString  “Computer Science” MyString[9:16]
SUBSTRING(MyString, 10, 7)

Both of the above function returns “Science” as a part of a given string “Computer Science”
String Handling(UPPER)

String handling upper indicates -

• To convert all the characters in a string


to uppercase.
upper()

• For example: the string “Science” would


become “SCIENCE”

Pseudocode - Python code –


UCASE(“Science”) “Science”.upper()

MyString = “Science” MyString = “Science”


UCASE(MyString) MyString.upper()
String Handling(LOWER)

String handling lower indicates -

• To convert all the characters in a string


to lowercase.
lower()

• For example: the string “Science” would


become “science”

Pseudocode - Python code –


LCASE(“Science”) “Science”.lower()

MyString = “Science” MyString = “Science”


LCASE(MyString) MyString.lower()

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