Chapter 5. Strings

Introduction

Recipe 5.1.  Using a StringBuilder

Recipe 5.2.  Creating a String of N Identical Characters

Recipe 5.3.  Creating a String by Repeating a String N Times

Recipe 5.4.  Obfuscating a String

Recipe 5.5.  Converting Binary Data to a Hexadecimal String

Recipe 5.6.  Extracting Substrings from Larger Strings

Recipe 5.7.  Converting a String's Case

Recipe 5.8.  Comparing Strings with Case Sensitivity

Recipe 5.9.  Comparing Strings Without Case Sensitivity

Recipe 5.10.  Converting Strings to and from Character Arrays

Recipe 5.11.  Converting Strings to and from Byte Arrays

Recipe 5.12.  Tallying Characters

Recipe 5.13.  Counting Words

Recipe 5.14.  Removing Extra Whitespace

Recipe 5.15.  Using the Correct End-of-Line Characters

Recipe 5.16.  Replacing Substrings

Recipe 5.17.  Inserting a Character or String

Recipe 5.18.  Inserting a Line

Recipe 5.19.  Double-Spacing a String

Recipe 5.20.  Formatting Numbers into Strings

Recipe 5.21.  Trimming Sets of Characters from a String

Recipe 5.22.  Identifying and Validating Types of Data in a String

Recipe 5.23.  Converting Strings Between Encoding Systems

Recipe 5.24.  Determining a Character's Type

Recipe 5.25.  Parsing Strings

Recipe 5.26.  Concatenating Strings

Recipe 5.27.  Speeding Up String Manipulation

Recipe 5.28.  Counting Occurrences of a Substring

Recipe 5.29.  Padding a String for Exact Length and Alignment

Recipe 5.30.  Converting Tabs to Spaces

Recipe 5.31.  Reversing a String

Recipe 5.32.  Shuffling a String

Recipe 5.33.  Using a Simple String Encryption

Recipe 5.34.  Converting a String to Morse Code

Recipe 5.35.  Adding Strings to an Application's Resources

Recipe 5.36.  Converting Any Data to a String

Recipe 5.37.  Using Regular Expressions to Extract All Numbers

Recipe 5.38.  Getting a Count of Regular Expression Matches

Recipe 5.39.  Getting the Nth Regular Expression Match

Recipe 5.40.  Compiling Regular Expressions for Speed

Recipe 5.41.  Using Regular Expressions to Validate Data

Recipe 5.42.  Using Regular Expressions to Count Characters, Words, or Lines

Recipe 5.43.  Converting a String to and from Base64

Recipe 5.44.  Splitting a String

Recipe 5.45.  Creating a String of Space Characters