IGCSE Computer Science 0478: String handling

Students learn to find the length of a string, extract substrings, change case and combine these functions, including the zero or one first-character rule.

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Modules (6)

1 LENGTH: number of characters in a string 2 SUBSTRING: extracting part of a string 3 First character at position zero or one 4 UCASE: converting to upper case 5 LCASE: converting to lower case 6 Combining string functions

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