Cluster lib/string

 

Provides strings, which are sequences of characters.

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CHARACTER

Note: An Eiffel CHARACTER is mapped as a C unsigned char or as a Java Byte.


 
CHARACTER_CONSTANTS

Platform-independent, universal, character constants.


 
STRING

Resizable character STRINGs indexed from 1 to count.


 
UNICODE_STRING

WARNING: THIS CLASS IS A WORK IN PROGRESS.


 

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Description

Provides strings, which are sequences of characters. There are two kinds of strings: the standard ASCII strings (using 8-bit characters), and Unicode strings.

Note that the compiler accepts a special notation for manifest Unicode strings: U"example"