# Strings

Strings (`str`) represent text data. Column names, categorical values, labels, and file paths are all strings. Python provides extensive string methods for cleaning, parsing, and transforming text data, and the `re` module adds regex-based pattern matching.

Visit the following resources to learn more:

- [@official@Built-in Types](https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html)
- [@article@str](https://realpython.com/ref/builtin-types/str/)