What is a String?

The String data type can hold any combination of keyboard characters - this means letters, numbers and special characters.

Words and Text: Using String Variables to Organize Words

From http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-au/library/whhs118y.aspx

"In this lesson, you will learn how to use the String data type to represent words and text.

The previous lesson showed how to use variables to store data in a program, and that each variable must be of the appropriate type for the data that it will store. In this lesson, you will learn more about the String data type, which is used to store text." Read more >>>