A string is thing that contains a sequence of characters (bytes). A string is normally entered as a sequence of characters surrounded by quotation marks.
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Strings involving special characters can be entered by using the backslash as an escape character, see ". For an alternate method of entering strings with fewer escape sequences, see ///.
A net is a two-dimensional array of characters, and strings are regarded as a type of net.
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