We have an XML schema defining documents that contain paragraphs of text collected from Web-based survey response forms, and we want to store them in a MySQL database. MySQL provides three data types ...

That's (variable length character) strings, not just strings of varying lengths. What I am interested in is having string classes (and stream classes, if possible) whose character data is encoded in ...

How C# and Visual Basic handle characters and single-character strings is a bit inconsistent. There's no tidy solution, but it's something you do need to know. Characters are the size zero of the .NET ...

The most common type of data you will use when writing programs is the string type, which consists of a string of characters. Strings can carry an assortment of data, most of which is coming in from ...