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The various things an object contains—its variables and its methods—are called the members of that object. The members of an object are accessed using dot notation, which looks like this:
objectReference.memberName
Usually the objectReference is contained in a variable,
but not always.
If you want to run a method of the object, use the method name.
If it needs parameters (values supplied to the method),
they go inside ( ) like this:
objectReference.methodName( parameter )
Always use ( ) with a method name,
even if it needs no parameters.
Does the length() method need
a parameter?