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5 Sep 2024 11:26:08 EDT (-0400)
  Re: A surprising discovery  
From: Chambers
Date: 24 Jul 2009 02:08:24
Message: <4a694fd8$1@news.povray.org>
Jim Henderson wrote:
> Personally, I think it is - data is data is data is data.  A "string" is 
> an array of characters.

More to the point, a bit of text is quite literally a "string" of 
characters :)  Or where did you think the term came from?

And, since characters were represented by bytes at the time, a string 
would then be an array of bytes.

-- 
Chambers


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