F# by Example: Strings

open System

Strings are enclosed in double quotation marks (")

 
let a = "This is a string"

You can use escape sequences within a string, here we use a new line

 
let b = "This is a string \nIt's cool eh?"

You can create multi-line strings with triple quotation marks

 
let c =
    """
    This is a multi-line string
    1
    2
    3
    4
    """

F# gives us format specifiers similar to languages like C which specify the type of the data you wish you display Here %s is saying “I want to put a string here”

 
printfn "%s" a
printfn "%s" b
printfn "%s" c
 
$ dotnet fsi strings.fsx
This is a string
This is a string
It's cool eh?
 
    This is a multi-line string
    1
    2
    3
    4

Next example: String Interpolation.

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