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   String

   /striNG/

   

   noun

   • 1. material consisting of threads of cotton, hemp, or other material twisted together to form a thin length: "unwieldy packs tied up with string" Similar twinecordyarnthreadstrandfiberropecablelinewireligaturethonghawserrare:fillis
   • ▪ a piece of string used to tie around or attach to something: "the elephant mask had a trunk you could raise by pulling a string"
   • ▪ a piece of catgut or similar material interwoven with others to form the head of a sports racket.
   • ▪ a length of catgut or wire on a musical instrument, producing a note by vibration: "the D string broke"
   • ▪ the stringed instruments in an orchestra: "the blend of the wind-group is less perfect than that of the strings" Similar stringed instruments
   • ▪ relating to or consisting of stringed instruments: "a string quartet"
   • 2. a set of things tied or threaded together on a thin cord: "she wore a string of agates around her throat" Similar strandropenecklacerosarychaplet
   • ▪ a sequence of similar items or events: "a string of burglaries" Similar seriessuccessionchainsequenceconcatenationrunstreakpattern
   • ▪ a linear sequence of characters, words, or other data.
   • ▪ a group of racehorses trained at one stable.
   • ▪ a team or player holding a specified position in an order of preference: "Gary was first string on the varsity football team"
   • 3. a tough piece of fiber in vegetables, meat, or other food, such as a tough elongated piece connecting the two halves of a bean pod.
   • 4. short for stringboard
   • 5. a hypothetical one-dimensional subatomic particle having the dynamical properties of a flexible loop.
   • ▪ a hypothetical threadlike concentration of energy within the structure of space–time.

   verb

   • 1. hang (something) so that it stretches in a long line: "lights were strung across the promenade" Similar hangsuspendslingstretchthreadloopfestoonstretchslingrunfastentiesecurelink
   • ▪ thread (a series of small objects) on a string: "he collected stones with holes in them and strung them on a strong cord" Similar threadlooplinkjoin
   • ▪ be arranged in a long line: "the houses were strung along the road"
   • 2. fit a string or strings to (a musical instrument, a racket, or a bow): "the harp had been newly strung"
   • 3. remove the strings from (a bean).
   • 4. another term for lag British

   Word Origin Old Englishstreng (noun), of Germanic origin; related to German Strang, also to strong. The verb (dating from late Middle English) is first recorded in the senses ‘arrange in a row’ and ‘fit with a string’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. stringless adjective
   • 2. stringlike adjective

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2. stackoverflow.com › questions › 14179365c++ - What is a #define string's type? - Stack Overflow

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   Jan 6, 2013 · The LP indicates a pointer, and the STR indicates "to a string". If C is included, the string will be a constant one. If W or T is included, the string will be made of characters of type wchar_t or TCHAR respectively. For example: LPSTR: char * LPCSTR: const char * LPWSTR: wchar_t * LPCTSTR: const TCHAR *.

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   std::basic_string<TCHAR> s(TEXT("abcd"));

   s += TEXT("ZYXW"); //s is now `TEXT("abcdZXW")

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3. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › String_(computer_science)String (computer science) - Wikipedia

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   String (computer science) Strings are typically made up of characters, and are often used to store human-readable data, such as words or sentences. In computer programming, a string is traditionally a sequence of characters, either as a literal constant or as some kind of variable. The latter may allow its elements to be mutated and the length ...

4. www.geeksforgeeks.org › strings-in-cppStrings in C++ - GeeksforGeeks

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   Oct 9, 2023 · Ways to Define a String in C++. Strings can be defined in several ways in C++. Strings can be accessed from the standard library using the string class. Character arrays can also be used to define strings. String provides a rich set of features, such as searching and manipulating, which are commonly used methods.

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   What are strings used for in music?

   • String (structure), a long flexible structure made from threads twisted together, which is used to tie, bind, or hang other objects String (music), the flexible element that produces vibrations and sound in string instruments

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   What is the difference between a string and a null-terminated string?

   • Strings are actually one-dimensional array of characters terminated by a null character '\\0'. Thus a null-terminated string contains the characters that comprise the string followed by a null.

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   What is a string in computer science?

   • Strings are often made up of characters. They are useful for storing human-readable data, like sentences, or lists of alphabetical data, like the nucleic acid sequences of DNA. In computer programming, a string is traditionally a sequence of characters, either as a literal constant or as some kind of variable.

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   What is a string in programming?

   • Strings are often made up of characters. They are useful for storing human-readable data, like sentences, or lists of alphabetical data, like the nucleic acid sequences of DNA. In computer programming, a string is traditionally a sequence of characters, either as a literal constant or as some kind of variable.

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6. www.geeksforgeeks.org › strings-in-cStrings in C - GeeksforGeeks

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   Mar 7, 2024 · In the above syntax string_name is any name given to the string variable and size is used to define the length of the string, i.e the number of characters strings will store. There is an extra terminating character which is the Null character (‘\0’) used to indicate the termination of a string that differs strings from normal character arrays .

7. learn.microsoft.com › en-us › cpp#define directive (C/C++) | Microsoft Learn

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   The #define creates a macro, which is the association of an identifier or parameterized identifier with a token string. After the macro is defined, the compiler can substitute the token string for each occurrence of the identifier in the source file. Syntax. #define identifier token-string opt #define identifier (identifier opt,...

8. www.freecodecamp.org › news › c-string-how-toC String – How to Declare Strings in the C Programming Language

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   Oct 6, 2021 · That method is quite cumbersome, time-consuming, and error-prone, though. It definitely is not the preferred way. You can instead use the strcpy() function, which stands for string copy. To use this function, you have to include the #include <string.h> line after the #include <stdio.h> line at the top of your file.

9. en.cppreference.com › w › cppStrings library - cppreference.com

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   Feb 1, 2024 · The string library provides the class template std::char_traits that defines types and functions for std::basic_string and std::basic_string_view (since C++17) . The following specializations are defined, all of them satisfy the CharTraits requirements: Defined in header <string>. template<>class char_traits<char>; template<>class char_traits ...