strings.md

Storing text

Warming up

So far, we have only worked with numbers. Now we will work with text as well.

first = 'Emily'
last = "Smith"
first
last

name = first + " " + last
name

What do the following statements do:

name[0]

name[3]

name[-1]

Exercises

Exercise 1:

Is it possible to include the following special characters in a string?

. 7 @ ? / & * \ Ä ß " ' á

Exercise 2:

What do the following statements do?

first = `Hannah`

first = first[0]

name = first

name = ""

Exercise 3:

Explain the code

text = ""
characters = "ABC"
text = characters[0] + text
text = characters[1] + text
text = characters[2] + text
text

The Challenge

first name	Andrew
last name	O'Malley
gender	M
year of birth	2000

Write the information from each row of the table into a separate string variable, then combine them to a single string, e.g.:

O'Malley, Andrew, M, 2000