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Revision as of 03:49, 25 October 2009
The string type represents a sequence of between zero and approximately two billion characters. The default value is a string containing zero characters.
Literals
A literal is a textual representation of a particular value of a type.
A string literal consists of zero or more characters enclosed in double quotes.
Conversion
There is no explicit or implicit conversion to or from a location.
Persistence
The following functions allow a string to exist outside of the scope of the current script by storing it on an object, effect or event:
The following functions allow a string which exists outside of the scope of the current script to be used in the current script by retrieving it from an object, effect or event:
Special
Concatenation
Two or more strings can be concatenated together using the concatenation operator "+".
Escape sequences
Escape sequences are used to insert special characters into a string literal. An escape sequence begins with a backslash character "\" followed by another string literal character.
Sequence | Description |
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\\ | The "\" character |
\n | A new line (a carriage return and line feed) |