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Elementary Data Types - Strings
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Elementary Data Types - Strings
There are two kinds of strings:
■ Variable-length string
A variable-length string is a sequence of up to 32,767 characters.
The codes for these characters range from 0-127 for regular ASCII
(American Standard Code for Information Interchange) characters, and
from 128-255 for the extended-ASCII characters. See the on-line
◄ASCII Character Codes Table► for examples of each type.
■ Fixed-length string
A fixed-length string contains a declared number of characters,
no more than 32,767.
Like variable-length strings, a fixed-length string contains
characters with codes ranging from 0-255.