If you’re working with strings in C#, you’ve probably encountered the need to extract substrings or manipulate portions of a string. Traditionally, you would use the Substring method to extract a portion of a string, but there’s a newer alternative called “spans” that you might want to consider. In this article, we’ll take a look at the differences between substrings and spans in C#, and discuss how you can use each approach efficiently to handle strings in your code.