Strings ======= Overview -------- Strings are sequences of characters. Strings are written as sequences of characters enclosed within quotation marks ("). The length of a string is the number of characters that it contains. This number is an exact, non-negative integer that is fixed when the string is created. The valid indexes of a string are the exact non-negative integers less than the length of the string. The first character of a string has index 0, the second has index 1, and so on. Some of the procedures that operate on strings ignore the difference between upper and lower case. The names of the versions that ignore case end with “-ci” (for “case insensitive”).