string is a class or data type?

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string is class or data type?

Munesh Sharma · Answer

http://www.tutorialspoint.com/csharp/csharp_strings.htm http://www.tutorialspoint.com/csharp/csharp_data_types.htm

Nanhe Siddique · Answer

read this article http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5164005/what-is-the-difference-between-a-class-and-a-datatype http://www.blackwasp.co.uk/CSharpStringDataType.aspx it may help you

Pankaj Kumar Choudhary · Answer

Hello @Ajay String is a class which is alias of system.String if you have a confusion about that then try this write String in application and now right click on it and select "GO TO Defination" and you will find your answer // Summary: // Represents text as a series of Unicode characters. [Serializable] [ComVisible(true)] public sealed class String : IComparable, ICloneable, IConvertible, IComparable , IEnumerable , IEnumerable, IEquatable { // Summary: // Represents the empty string. This field is read-only. public static readonly string Empty; // Summary: // Initializes a new instance of the System.String class to the value indicated // by a specified pointer to an array of Unicode characters. // // Parameters: // value: // A pointer to a null-terminated array of Unicode characters. // // Exceptions: // System.ArgumentOutOfRangeException: // The current process does not have read access to all the addressed characters. // // System.ArgumentNullException: // value is null. // // System.ArgumentException: // value specifies an array that contains an invalid Unicode character, or value // specifies an address less than 64000. [CLSCompliant(false)] [SecurityCritical] public String(char* value); // // Summary: // Initializes a new instance of the System.String class to the value indicated // by an array of Unicode characters. // // Parameters: // value: // An array of Unicode characters. [SecuritySafeCritical] public String(char[] value); // // Summary: // Initializes a new instance of the System.String class to the value indicated // by a pointer to an array of 8-bit signed integers. // // Parameters: // value: // A pointer to a null-terminated array of 8-bit signed integers. // // Exceptions: // System.ArgumentNullException: // value is null. // // System.ArgumentException: // A new instance of System.String could not be initialized using value, assuming // value is encoded in ANSI. // // System.ArgumentOutOfRangeException: // The length of the new string to initialize, which is determined by the null // termination character of value, is too large to allocate. // // System.AccessViolationException: // value specifies an invalid address. [CLSCompliant(false)] [SecurityCritical] public String(sbyte* value); // // Summary: // Initializes a new instance of the System.String class to the value indicated // by a specified Unicode character repeated a specified number of times. // // Parameters: // c: // A Unicode character. // // count: // The number of times c occurs. // // Exceptions: // System.ArgumentOutOfRangeException: // count is less than zero. [SecuritySafeCritical] public String(char c, int count); // // Summary: // Initializes a new instance of the System.String class to the value indicated // by a specified pointer to an array of Unicode characters, a starting character // position within that array, and a length. // // Parameters: // value: // A pointer to an array of Unicode characters. // // startIndex: // The starting position within value. // // length: // The number of characters within value to use. // // Exceptions: // System.ArgumentOutOfRangeException: // startIndex or length is less than zero, value + startIndex cause a pointer // overflow, or the current process does not have read access to all the addressed // characters. Which show that String is a class

Gopi Chand · Answer

Hello Ajay, In c# language, there are three varieties of data types: Value types Reference types Pointer types So string is a data type that comes under reference type that allows you to assign any string value to a variable. The string type is an alias (another name) for the System.string class. So string is also a class. For more details, follow the link below: c# Data types c# String class Thank you.

string is a class or data type?

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