What is the difference between a string and a list?

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Accepted Answer

Strings are immutable sequences of characters while lists are mutable sequences of objects.

Strings are enclosed in quotes while lists are enclosed in square brackets.
Strings cannot be modified while lists can be modified using various methods.
Strings are used to represent text while lists are used to store collections of objects.
Strings have limited functionality compared to lists which have a wide range of methods and operations.
Example of string: 'Hello World', Example of list: [1, 2, 'apple', 'banana']

Accepted Answer

// Java program to illustrate creating an array

// of integers, put some values in the array,

// and prints each value to standard output

class GFG {

public static void main(String args[])

{

// Declaring an Array of integers

int[] arr;

// Allocating memory for 5 integers

arr = new int[5];

// Initialize the first element of the array

arr[0] = 10;

// Initialize the second element of the array

arr[1] = 20;

// So on...

arr[2] = 30;

arr[3] = 40;

arr[4] = 50;

// Accessing the elements of the specified array

for (int i = 0; i < arr.length; i++)

System.out.println("Element at index " + i

+ " : " + arr[i]);

}

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