Easy C# Question 7 of 215

Why are strings immutable in C#?

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Once created, a System.String cannot change

Why interviewers care about C#:

They are checking judgment

on C#.

A good answer names

the situation, the default choice, and one exception - that reads as experience.

Stay structured

Name the idea, why it exists, then one short example.

Close cleanly

End with when you use it and one common pitfall.

Before you speak the answer, walk the interviewer through these steps:

1
Once created, a System.String
cannot change
2
Concat and Replace return
new instances.
3
That makes strings safe
to share across threads and usable as dictionary keys.
4
For heavy building I
use StringBuilder so I do not allocate a new string on every append.
5
Common mistake
What juniors usually get wrong.
6
Close
When you pick this over the alternative.

Here's a short line you can speak, broken into clear beats:

Say this line

“That makes strings safe to share across threads and usable as dictionary keys.”

Break into beats

Thatmakesstringssafetoshare

Speaking order

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Once created, a System.String cannot change Concat and Replace return new instances.