string
<programming> A sequence of data values, usually bytes, which usually
stand for characters (a "character string"). The mapping between values and
characters is determined by the character set which is itself specified
implcitly or explicitly by the environment in which the string is being
interpreted.
The most common character set is ASCII but, since the late 1990s, there has been
increased interest in larger character sets such as Unicode where each character
is represented by more than eight bits.
Most programming languages consider strings (e.g. "124:shabooya:\n", "hello
world") basically distinct from numbers which are typically stored in
fixed-length binary or floating-point representation.
A bit string is a sequence of bits.
(1999-12-21)
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