YouTipJs Strings
# JavaScript Strings
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JavaScript strings are used for storing and manipulating text.
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## JavaScript Strings
A string can be any text inside quotes. You can use single or double quotes:
## Example
var carname = "Volvo XC60";
var carname = 'Volvo XC60';
You can access the characters in a string by index position:
## Example
var character = carname;
String indexes start at 0, meaning the first character has index , the second , and so on.
## Example
const name ="";
let letter = name;
document.getElementById("demo").innerHTML= letter;
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You can use quotes inside a string, as long as they don't match the quotes around the string:
## Example
var answer = "It's alright";
var answer = "He is called 'Johnny'";
var answer = 'He is called "Johnny"';
You can also add escape characters to use quotes inside a string:
## Example
var x = 'It's alright';
var y = "He is called "Johnny"";
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## String Length
The built-in property **length** can be used to find the length of a string:
## Example
var txt = "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ";
var sln = txt.length;
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## Special Characters
In JavaScript, strings are written with double or single quotes.
Because of this, the following example cannot be parsed by JavaScript:
"We are the so-called "Vikings" from the north."
The string "We are the so-called " is truncated.
How to solve this problem? Use an escape character () to escape the double quotes in the "Vikings" string, like this:
"We are the so-called "Vikings" from the north."
The backslash () is an **escape character**. Escape characters turn special characters into string characters:
The escape character () can be used to escape other special characters like apostrophes, newlines, quotes, etc.
The following table lists the special characters that can be escaped in a string:
| Code | Output |
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| ' | Single quote |
| " | Double quote |
| | Backslash |
| n | New line |
| r | Carriage return |
| t | Tab |
| b | Backspace |
| f | Form feed |
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## Strings are Objects
Normally, JavaScript strings are primitive values, created from literals: **var firstName = "John"**
But strings can also be defined as objects with the **new** keyword: **var firstName = new String("John")**
## Example
var x = "John";
var y = new String("John");
typeof x // returns String
typeof y // returns Object
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|  | Do not create String objects. It slows down execution speed and can cause other side effects: |
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## Example
var x = "John";
var y = new String("John");
(x === y) // returns false because x is a string, y is an object
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