3.3. Strings are Immutable

Even though you can manipulate a string to create a new string the original string is immutable which means that they never change. Notice that after you execute the code below the string stored in the variable sentence hasn’t changed.

While the strings themselves can’t be changed you can change the value of a variable. This throws away the original string and sets the variable’s value to the new string.

We can reassign a variable to hold the result of calling a function on a string. On line 3 of the example below, we make the new value of sentence be the result of changing the old value of sentance after it was changed to lower case.

Note

We always do all the work on the right side of = and then store the result into the variable listed on the left side.

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