String

An object representing a series of characters in a string . String is a core object.

Created by

The String constructor:

new String(string);

Parameters

string

Any string.

Description

The String object is a built-in JavaScript object. You an treat any JavaScript string as a String object.

A string can be represented as a literal enclosed by single or double quotation marks; for example, "Hyperion" or 'Hyperion'.

Examples

String Variable
The following statement creates a string variable:
```
	var last_name = "Schaefer"
```
String Object Properties
The following statements evaluate to 8, "SCHAEFER," and "schaefer":
```
	last_name.length
	last_name.toUpperCase()
	last_name.toLowerCase()
```
Accessing individual characters in a string
You can think of a string as an array of characters. In this way, you can access the individual characters in the string by indexing that array. For example, the following code:
```
	var myString = "Hello"
	Console.Write ("The first character in the string is " + 	myString[0])
```
displays:
```
"The first character in the string is H"
```