Questions on the manipulation of String objects in Mathematica, and the functions used for these manipulations.
Questions on the manipulation of String objects in Mathematica, and the functions used for these manipulations. This includes converting (ToString), joining (StringJoin), cutting (StringSplit), modifying (StringInsert, StringDrop, StringTake, etc.), matching, selecting or replacing parts of (StringMatchQ, StringReplace, StringPosition, etc.) a string or list of strings.
Note that string-specific functions are named after their list-manipulating counterparts with the String... prefix added (cf. Cases -> StringCases, MatchQ -> StringMatchQ). Almost all list-based function has its string-equivalent.
Add regular-expressions if the question is about matching regular expressions in strings. Use text for importing/exporting string/text format data, textual analysis and data mining of text. Questions about how to encode strings in a certain encoding should use character-encoding.
Useful links
- Operations on strings tutorial
- Strings and Characters overview
- String Patterns tutorial on pattern matching in strings
- Regular Expressions tutorial on string manipulation through regular expressions
Example questions
