A string may refer to any of the following:
- A string is any series of characters that are interpreted literally by a script. For example, “hello world” and “LKJH019283” are both examples of strings. In computer programming, a string is attached to a variable as shown in the example below.
$example = “Example of a string”;print “Example variable = $example”;
In the example above, the variable “$example” is assigned the value “Example of a string.” Then, the second line prints “Example variable = Example of a string” when the script is run.
- With Windows Sysinternals Strings is a utility to search for ANSI and Unicode strings in binary images.
In most programming languages, the string can be either only letters or be letters and numbers (alphanumeric). Many languages also support a string as numbers only, but often is classified as an integer if it’s only numbers.
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