String CS Thinking Example 3

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Example 3

easy
Given name = 'Alice', what does name + ' is ' + STRING(15) + ' years old' produce?

Solution

  1. 1
    Step 1: Convert 15 to string: '15'.
  2. 2
    Step 2: Concatenate: 'Alice' + ' is ' + '15' + ' years old' = 'Alice is 15 years old'.

Answer

'Alice is 15 years old'
Building strings by concatenating parts is a fundamental operation for creating output messages, labels, and user-facing text.

About String

A data type that represents a sequence of characters (text), enclosed in quotation marks. Strings support operations like concatenation (joining), slicing (extracting substrings), searching, and comparison, and can contain letters, digits, spaces, and special characters.

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More String Examples

Example 1 easy

Given s = 'Hello World', what is: (a) LENGTH(s), (b) s[0], (c) s[6..10] (substring from index 6 to 1

Example 2 medium

What is the result of concatenating 'Score: ' + STRING(95) + '%'?

Example 4 medium

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