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String Handling

Revise String Handling in 3.2 Programming for GCSE Computer Science with 15 exam-style questions and 8 flashcards. This is a high-frequency exam topic, so students should expect to explain it clearly under timed conditions.

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Video Lesson

Notes2

Working with Text

Introduction3

GCSE String Operations

Notes4

Deep Dive: String Indexing

Notes5

Memory Trick

Notes6

Exam Tips

Notes7

Knowledge Organiser: String Handling

Summary

Sample Flashcards

How do you join strings?
Concatenation: string1 + string2
What does CHR(66) return?
"B"

Exam questions for String Handling

The string variable word = "Hello". What does word.length return?

  • A. 4
  • B. 5
  • C. 6
  • D. 0
1 markfoundation

Explain the purpose of the ASC() and CHR() functions in OCR pseudocode. Give one reason a programmer might need to convert between characters and their ASCII codes.

3 marksstandard

15

exam-style questions

8

revision flashcards

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