4.2 Text

The FCL provides rich support for text. Important types include a String class for handling immutable strings, a StringBuilder class that provides string-handling operations with support for locale-aware comparison operations and multiple string-encoding formats (such as ASCII, Unicode, UTF-7, and UTF-8), and a set of classes that provide regular expression support (see Section 3.5 in Chapter 3).

For more information, see the following namespaces:

System.Text
System.Text.RegularExpressions

An important type in other namespaces is System.String.