C#: Strings with same contents

Question

I have heard and read that a string can not be changed (immutable?). That should be correct I guess. But I have also heard that two strings with the same contents share the

Answer 1

This is more or less true. It is called "string interning". String literals will be present in memory only once and every variable set to the same value points to this single representation. Strings that are created in code are not automatically interned though.

http://msmvps.com/blogs/manoj/archive/2004/01/09/1549.aspx