# Strings in Computer Science

DevFeed: [Strings in Computer Science](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/strings-in-computer-science-40745.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://radek.io/posts/strings-in-computer-science/>)

Published: 2011-09-23T00:00:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Radek Pazdera](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/radek-pazdera.md>)

Topics: [Computer science](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/computer-science.md>), [Mathematics](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/mathematics.md>), [Programming](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/programming.md>), [data type](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data-type.md>), [iteration](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/iteration.md>)

Tags: [computer-science](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/computer-science.md>), [data-type](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data-type.md>), [iteration](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/iteration.md>), [programming](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/programming.md>)

## AI overview

This tutorial explains strings as finite ordered sequences of characters over an alphabet. It introduces the empty string and defines concatenation, prefixes, suffixes, substrings, and reversal, while distinguishing theoretical strings from programming string literals.

## Source excerpt

The concept of a string in Computer Science and what can you do with it.