Difference between revisions of "String keyword"

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The string type represents a sequence of between zero and approximately two billion characters. The default value 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:

• SetLocalString
• SetEffectString
• SetEventString

The following functions allow a string which exist outside of the scope of the current script to be used in the current script by retrieving it from an object, effect or event:

• GetLocalString
• GetEffectString
• GetEventString

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.

Examples

void main()
{
    // uninitialised
    string sDefault;
 
    // initialised using "forty two" literal
    string sSpecific = "forty two";
 
    // initialised using concatenation
    string sConcatenated = "Hello " + "World";
}

See Also

PrintString