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
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
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
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