String

Usage

• String is the head of a character string "text".

Notes

• Strings can contain any sequence of ordinary or special characters.

• x_String can be used as a pattern that represents a string.

• String is used as a tag to indicate strings in Read, terminated by a newline.

• In InputForm, special characters in strings are given as \[Name] or \:code.

• Except when they are enclosed between \< and \>, newlines and any tabs which follow them are ignored when strings are input.

• New in Version 1; modified in 3.