JavaScript Strings

JavaScript strings are used for storing and manipulating text.

String Length

The length of a string can be found with the built-in length property:

let txt = "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ";
let length = txt.length; // length will be 26

Escape Characters

Because strings must be written within quotes, JavaScript will misunderstand this string:

let text = "We are the so-called "Vikings" from the north.";

The solution to avoid this problem, is to use the backslash escape character.

let text = "We are the so-called \"Vikings\" from the north.";