Is there an easy way to change a char in a string in C#?

Question

I want to do this:

string s = \"abc\";
s[1] = \'x\';

and s will become \"axc\". However, it seems that string[i] only has a getter and has

Answer 1

(Your example is slightly wrong: s[2] = 'x' should change it to "abx".)

No you can't, since strings are immutable, you have to create a new string:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immutable_object

You should use a method that returns a new string with the desired modification.

Hope that helps!