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StringBuilder

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 Contents

 What is StringBuilder?

 Creating StringBuilder

 Difference between String and

String Builder

 Property of StringBuilder Class

 Methods of StringBuilder Class

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 What is StringBuilder?

 It is a class that is useful to represent a mutable string of characters.

 It is used to create variables to hold any text, a sequential collection of characters based on our requirements.

 It is mutable.

 Mutability means once an instance of the class is created.

 After creating, the same instance will be used to perform any operations like inserting, appending, removing, or replacing the

characters instead of creating a new instance for every time.

 It is a dynamic object which will expand a memory dynamically to accommodate the modifications of string instead of

creating a new instance in the memory.

 need to import the System.Text namespace 3

 Creating StringBuilder

StringBuilder Declaration and Initialization RAM

StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(“Hello”); Stack

sb.Append(“ Welcome To”);

Heap
Initial Value

Hello Welcome To 0x70000

Modified Value

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 Difference between String and StringBuilder
 Only difference between string and stringbuilder :
 Strings are immutable
 StringBuilder is mutable

string st = “Hello”; StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(“Hello”);

st = st + “ Welcome To”; sb.Append(“ Welcome To”);
RAM
RAM
Code
Code
Initial string
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Stack New or
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Modified
Initial string Modified
string
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Hello
Hello +
Welcome To 5
Memory allocation
Hello Welcome forTo
string Memory allocation for stringbuilder
 Capacity Property
 can specify an initial capacity of characters
 new space will be allocated automatically
 the capacity of StringBuilder will be doubled
 default capacity of StringBuilder is 16 characters
 its maximum capacity is more than 12 billion characters

StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(25);

StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder("Welcome to Tutlane",25);
sb.Capacity = 25;

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 Length Property

 “Length” is used to get or set the length of the current StringBuilder object.

 It returns the length of the current instance.

StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder("Hello World!");

for(int i = 0; i < sb.Length; i++)

Console.WriteLine(sb[i]);

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 StringBuilder Methods

Method Description

StringBuilder.Append This method will append the given string value to the end of the current
StringBuilder.

StringBuilder.AppendFormat It will replace a format specifier passed in a string with formatted text.

StringBuilder.Insert It inserts a string at the specified index of the current StringBuilder.

StringBuilder.Remove It removes a specified number of characters from the current

StringBuilder.

StringBuilder.Replace It replaces a specified character at a specified index.

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 StringBuilder Methods
Append ( )
AppendLine( )
 used to add or append a string object at the end of the  append a string with the newline character at the end
string represented by the StringBuilder
Signature: Signature:

public StringBuilder Append(string st) public StringBuilder Append(string st)

 It takes one parameter.

 It return StringBuilder object.  It takes one parameter.
 It return StringBuilder object.

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 StringBuilder Methods

AppendFormat ( )

 used to add or append string objects by formatting them into a specified format at the end of the string represented by
the StringBuilder
Signature:

public StringBuilder AppendFormat (string format, Object arg)

 It takes tow parameters.

 It returns StringBuilder object.

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 StringBuilder Methods

Insert( )
 used to insert a string at the specified index position of the current StringBuilder object

Signature:

public StringBuilder Insert (int index, string value)

 It takes tow parameters.

 It returns StringBuilder object.

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 StringBuilder Methods
Remove ( )
Replace( )
 used to remove a specified number of characters from  used to replace all occurrences of specified string characters
the current StringBuilder object, starting from the in the current StringBuilder object with a specified
specified index position replacement string character
Signature: Signature:

public StringBuilder Remove (int startindex , int length) public StringBuilder Replace (string oldValue, string
newValue)

 It takes tow parameters.

 It returns StringBuilder object.  It takes tow parameters.
 It returns StringBuilder object.

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 StringBuilder Methods

ToString()
 convert a StringBuilder object to a string
Signature:

public string ToString( )

 It takes no parameter.
 It returns String object.

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Thank You

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