Character strings

Strings are widely used in programming languages. They are used to represent text entered by a user or text that will be displayed to a user.

Creating a character string

A character string is represented by an object of class String. But since character strings are widely used in JavaScript, the language allows them to be used by surrounding them with double quotes " and " or single quotes ' and '. It is also possible, for certain uses, to use backticks (reverse quotation marks ' and ').

Note

The string literal must in this case begin and end with the same type of quotes.

Now let’s see how to create a string using these various methods.

Creating a string literal using double or single quotes

The easiest way to create a string literal is to use the single or double quote notation:

Creating a string literal with double quotes

var s = "String 1";
console.log("s =", s);

Or, with single...