Re: Is there a definition of what is a string in perl, and what is it?

2019-05-17 Thread Uri Guttman
On 5/17/19 9:49 AM, hwilmer wrote: That means "binary data", like you would allocate some memory in C to read a file into (like a jpeg image in my application) or perhaps use a vector of a suitable data type in C++ for such data, or maybe an array. Despite being a useful simplification,

Re: Is there a definition of what is a string in perl, and what is it?

2019-05-17 Thread hwilmer
On 5/16/19 10:48 PM, Andrew Solomon wrote: In terms of a definition, do the first four paragraphs here answer your question? https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/perl-cookbook-2nd/0596003137/ch01.html They do not. I think in bytes, characters or strings, depending on what I want to do ---