String manipulation is an important part of programming because it help to process data that come in the form of non-numeric types such as names, addresses, gender, cities, book titles and more.
Strings can be manipulated using the & sign and the + sign, both perform the string concatenation which means combining two or more smaller strings into larger strings. For example, we can join “Visual” and “Basic” into “Visual Basic” using “Visual”&”Basic” or “Visual “+”Basic”.
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