String Data Composite Web & Application String str1 = "CCCP"; char data[] = {'C', 'C', 'C', 'P'}; String str2 = new String(data); println(str1); // Prints "CCCP" to the console println(str2); // Prints "CCCP" to the console A string is a sequence of characters. The class String includes methods for examining individual characters, comparing strings, searching strings, extracting parts of strings, and for converting an entire string uppercase and lowercase. Strings are always defined inside double quotes ("Abc") and characters are always defined inside single quotes('A').

There are more string methods than those linked from this page. Additional String documentation is located at http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/ charAt() Returns the character at the specified index equals() Compares a string to a specified object indexOf() Returns the index value of the first occurance of a character within the input string length() Returns the number of characters in the input string substring() Returns a new string that is part of the input string toLowerCase() Converts all the characters to lower case toUpperCase() Converts all the characters to upper case String(data) String(data, offset, length) data byte[] or char[]: array of bytes to be decoded into characters or array of characters to be combined into a string offset int: index of the first character length int: number of characters char text() 1.0 Object PDE