Half Term 1

Question 1

What is string manipulation?

Answer 1

The act of manipulating, extracting or changing the characters in a string variable

Question 2

What are string functions?

Answer 2

String functions are built in functions to manipulate strings

Question 3

How to use .length?

Answer 3

stringname.length

Question 4

What does .length do?

Answer 4

.length returns the number of characters in a string including spaces

Question 5

How to use .substring?

Answer 5

string.substring(startingPosition, numberOfChars)

Question 6

What does .substring do?

Answer 6

.substring returns the characters within a string based on the specified starting point and number of characters (0 indexed)

Question 7

What do case conversion functions do?

Answer 7

.upper returns string in upper case, .lower returns string in lower case, isupper returns True if string is uppercase, .islower returns True for lowercase

Question 8

How to use ASCII conversions?

Answer 8

ASC(character) returns ASCII number, CHR(number) returns character

Question 9

What is a procedure?

Answer 9

Procedure