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| <h3 class="section">5.6 Strings</h3> |
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| <p>Some languages, like C or the original Pascal, do not have string types, |
| they just have related things like arrays of characters. But most |
| Pascals and various other languages have string types, which are |
| indicated as follows: |
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| <dt><code>n </code><var>type-information</var><code> ; </code><var>bytes</var><dd><var>bytes</var> is the maximum length. I'm not sure what |
| <var>type-information</var> is; I suspect that it means that this is a string |
| of <var>type-information</var> (thus allowing a string of integers, a string |
| of wide characters, etc., as well as a string of characters). Not sure |
| what the format of this type is. This is an AIX feature. |
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| <br><dt><code>z </code><var>type-information</var><code> ; </code><var>bytes</var><dd>Just like ‘<samp><span class="samp">n</span></samp>’ except that this is a gstring, not an ordinary |
| string. I don't know the difference. |
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| <br><dt><code>N</code><dd>Pascal Stringptr. What is this? This is an AIX feature. |
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| <p>Languages, such as CHILL which have a string type which is basically |
| just an array of characters use the ‘<samp><span class="samp">S</span></samp>’ type attribute |
| (see <a href="String-Field.html#String-Field">String Field</a>). |
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