String (computer science)

data type representing a finite sequence of encoded characters

thumb|upright=2| A spreadsheet's concatenate ("&") function is used to assemble a complex text string—in this example, XML code for an [[SVG "circle" element.]] In formal language theory and computer programming, string concatenation is the operation of joining character strings end-to-end. For example, the concatenation of "snow" and "ball" is "snowball". In certain formalizations of concatenation theory, also called string theory, string concatenation is a primitive notion.

the unique string of length zero

standard UNIX utility

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part of a URL which assigns values to specified parameters

a section of a source code file that is treated as if it were a separate file

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handling of strings in the C programming language

class in the C++ standard library that represents a string of characters