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 <h4 class="subsection">String Type</h4> <p>A <em>string</em> is an array of characters. Strings are used for many purposes in Emacs, as can be expected in a text editor; for example, as the names of Lisp symbols, as messages for the user, and to represent text extracted from buffers. Strings in Lisp are constants: evaluation of a string returns the same string. </p> <p>See <a href="strings-and-characters">Strings and Characters</a>, for functions that operate on strings. </p> <table class="menu" border="0" cellspacing="0"> <tr>
<td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="syntax-for-strings" accesskey="1">Syntax for Strings</a>
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<td align="left" valign="top">How to specify Lisp strings. </td>
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<td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="non_002dascii-in-strings" accesskey="2">Non-ASCII in Strings</a>
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<td align="left" valign="top">International characters in strings. </td>
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<td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="nonprinting-characters" accesskey="3">Nonprinting Characters</a>
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<td align="left" valign="top">Literal unprintable characters in strings. </td>
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<td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="text-props-and-strings" accesskey="4">Text Props and Strings</a>
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