Glossary of Terms

Strings Methods & String Manipulation

Keyword Definition
Case Conversion Changing the case (uppercase or lowercase) of characters within a string.
Concatenation The action of combining multiple strings together to form a single longer string.
End Index The position of the first character to exclude from the slice.
Indexing The process of accessing individual characters within a string using their position.
Length The number of characters in a string.
Negative Index The position of a character starting from the end of the string.
Positive Index Tthe position of a character starting from the beginning of the string.
Replacing Swapping certain characters or substrings in a string with new ones.
Splitting Dividing a string into multiple substrings based on a specified separator.
Start Index The position of the first character to include in the slice.
Step Value The number of positions to skip between characters in the slice.
String Manipulation The process of altering or transforming strings to achieve a desired result.
String Slicing The method used to extract a subset of characters from a string.
Strings Methods A set of functions built into programming languages that allows manipulation and modification of strings.
Substring A portion of a string that is extracted based on its starting and ending positions.
Trimming Removing leading and trailing whitespace characters from a string.