This tutorials talks about how to store characters and strings in Nim Language.
Nim Provides following data types
Nim Character
String
NIm Character
Characters is a ascii digit represented by Char type in Nim and size is 1 byte in length.
It represents single character such as digit,letters, symbol, and special characters, and throws an error if it contains multiple characters These are enclosed in single tick mark (`)
Example character variable
let
char1=`a`
char2=`b`
Invalid Character declaration and throws an error
let
char4=`23`
char5=`22`
Char type does not represent UTF-8 characters.
use Rune
type for represent unicode characters.
Rune is declared unicode module which needs import
String in NIM
String are group of characters, that contains words or statements or escape characters declared using double quotes
- String literals with escape character
- Raw String literals
- Long String literals
Example of String literals
let
str="abc"
str1="2"
Multi line strings are declared using \n
character
let
str="abc\n def"
Another, Raw String literals
, which does not escape characters print the string without escape characters.
Raw strings starts with r character and enclose string in double quotes.
echo r"Skip escape characters such as \n and \t"
Output:
Skip escape characters such as \n and \t
Long string literals:
Sometimes, We want to add long line string, enclosed in triple quotes (""").
Long string literals are spanned across multiple lines and \
is not escape character
Example:
echo “““First line. Second line third line four line \n \t \r”””
String Formatting example
strutils
module provides formatting feature
String concatenation example
Sometimes, adding one string to another string.
&
operator used to append a string.
let str = "one" & " two"
echo str # one two
How to check strings are equal or not
There are two operators to check strings are equal or not
==
: check if two strings are equal and return true.!==
: check if two strings are not equal and return true.
echo "one" == "two"
echo "one" != "two"