GNU Smalltalk Library Reference: String

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1.158 String

Defined in namespace Smalltalk

Superclass: CharacterArray

Category: Collections-Text

My instances represent 8-bit character strings. Being a very common case, they are particularly optimized.

Note that, if you care about multilingualization, you should treat String only as an encoded representation of a UnicodeString. The I18N package adds more Unicode-friendliness to the system so that encoding and decoding is performed automatically in more cases. In that case, String represents a case when the encoding is either unknown, irrelevant, or assumed to be the system default.

• String class-instance creation: (class)

• String class-multibyte encodings: (class)

• String-accessing: (instance)

• String-basic: (instance)

• String-built ins: (instance)

• String-CObject: (instance)

• String-converting: (instance)

• String-filesystem: (instance)

• String-printing: (instance)

• String-regex: (instance)

• String-still unclassified: (instance)

• String-testing functionality: (instance)