Copyright Digital Equipment Corp. All rights reserved. The String package consists of the single class, String, which provides ways to assign, concatenate, and compare character strings. This class also provides methods for substring creation and for vector access to a character string. Overloaded operators provide ways to assign, concatenate, and compare strings.
New operators provide simple notations for substring creation and vector access into the string.
All comparisons are lexicographic with the ordering dependent on the character set in which the string is encoded. An index value of 0 indicates the first character in a String object.