The string type represents a sequence of zero or more Unicode characters. 
string is an alias for String in the .NET Framework.

Although string is a reference type, 
the equality operators (== and !=) are defined to compare the values of string objects, not references. 
This makes testing for string equality more intuitive. For example:
Code:
	string a = "hello";
	string b = "h";
	// Append to contents of 'b'
	b += "ello";
	Console.WriteLine(a == b);
	Console.WriteLine((object)a == (object)b);
 
This displays "True" and then "False" because the content of the strings are equivalent, 
but a and b do not refer to the same string instance. 
Code:
	string a = "good " + "morning";

This creates a string object that contains "good morning".


Strings are immutable--the contents of a string object cannot be changed 
after the object is created, although the syntax makes it appear as if you can do this. 
For example, when you write this code, 
the compiler actually creates a new string object to hold the new sequence of characters, 
and the variable b continues to hold "h". 
Code: 
	string b = "h";
	b += "ello";
 

The [] operator can be used to access individual characters of a string:
Code:
	string str = "test";
	char x = str[2];  // x = 's';
 

String literals are of type string and can be written in two forms, quoted and @-quoted. 
Quoted string literals are enclosed in double quotation marks ("):
Code:
	"good morning"  // a string literal
	@"C:\tmp\"
 

String literals can contain any character literal, including escape sequences:
Code:
      string a = "\\\u0066\n";
This string contains a backslash, the letter f, and new line.

Note:
The escape code \udddd (where dddd is a four-digit number) represents the Unicode character U+dddd. 
Eight-digit Unicode escape codes are also recognized: \udddd\udddd.
 

@-quoted string literals start with @ and are also enclosed in double quotation marks. 
For example:
Code:
	@"good morning"  // a string literal

The advantage of @-quoting is that escape sequences are not processed, 
which makes it easy to write, for example, a fully qualified file name:
Code:
	@"c:\Docs\Source\a.txt"  // rather than "c:\\Docs\\Source\\a.txt"
 

To include a double quotation mark in an @-quoted string, double it:
Code:
	@"""Ahoy!"" cried the captain." // "Ahoy!" cried the captain.
 
Another use of the @ symbol is to use referenced (/reference) identifiers 
that happen to be C# keywords. Example:
Code:
	// keyword_string.cs
	using System;
	class TestClass 
	{
		static void Main()
		{
			string a = "\u0068ello ";
			string b = "world";
			Console.WriteLine( a + b );
			Console.WriteLine( a + b == "hello world" );
		}
	}
Output:
	hello world
	True