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string
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data type representing a finite sequence of encoded characters
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- abstract data type
- Subclass of
- data type
- Has part
- character
- Image
- String example.png
- Said to be same as
- array data structure
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- topic's main category
- Category:String (computer science)
- Stack Exchange tag
- tex.stackexchange.com/tags/strings
- equivalent class
- schema.org/Text
- topic has template
- Module:String2
- Commons category
- String (computer science)
- implementation of
- plain text
- different from
- string
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
- P13411
- language
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Encyclopedic overview
Strings are typically made up of characters, and are often used to store human-readable data, such as words or sentences.
In computer programming, a string is traditionally a sequence of characters, either as a literal constant or as some kind of variable. The latter may allow its elements to be mutated and the length changed, or it may be fixed (after creation). A string is often implemented as an array data structure of bytes (or words) that stores a sequence of elements, typically characters, using some character encoding. More general, string may also denote a sequence (or list) of data other than just characters.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “string” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.