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A string of seven characters
In computing and telecommunications, a character is the encoded representation of a natural language character (including letter, numeral and punctuation), whitespace (space or tab), or a control character (controls computer hardware that consumes character-based data). A sequence of characters is called a string.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “character” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.