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Characters

gives a list of the characters in a string.

MORE INFORMATION

Each character is given as a length one string.

Characters handles both ordinary and special characters.

Characters has attribute Listable.

EXAMPLES

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Basic Examples (1)

Break a string into a list of characters:

Show in InputForm:

Reassemble the string:

Break a string into a list of characters:

In[1]:=

Out[1]=

Show in InputForm:

In[2]:=

Out[2]//InputForm=

Reassemble the string:

In[3]:=

Out[3]=

Scope (2)

Characters handles special characters just like ordinary ones:

Characters threads itself element-wise over lists:

Applications (4)

Break a string into overlapping trigrams:

Reassemble into strings:

Sort the characters in a string:

Find their frequencies:

Rotate the characters in a string:

Make an array out of a list of strings:

Properties & Relations (1)

Characters gives a list of strings of length 1:

Possible Issues (3)

A string form of an expression must be created before it can be broken into characters:

Characters operates on the explicit character form of strings:

Characters normally treats special characters just like other characters:

Use ToString and FullForm to get the characters in the full names of special characters:

SEE ALSO

String StringJoin StringLength ToCharacterCode StringExpression StringToStream CharacterRange

TUTORIALS

Characters in Strings

Special Characters

String Patterns

Working with String Patterns

MORE ABOUT

Atomic Elements of Expressions

Character Operations

Constructing Lists

String Manipulation

String Operations

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