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 | | One may consider sequences of characterss (a character string), tokenss in a formal grammar, states in automata, representations of DNA, or bits (a binary string). |
 | | Older string implementations were designed to work with the character repertoire and encoding defined by ASCII, or more recent extensions like the ISO 8859 series. |
 | | The length of a string can be stored implicitly by using a special terminating character (often NUL, ASCII code 0)—the C programming language uses this convention (see C string)—or explicitly, for example by prefixing the string with integer value (convention used in Pascal). |
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