4.7 Character Strings
After integer values, character strings are probably the most common data type that modern programs use. The 80x86 does support a handful of string instructions, but these instructions are really intended for block memory operations, not a specific implementation of a character string. Therefore, this section will concentrate mainly on the HLA definition of character strings and will also discuss the string-handling routines available in the HLA Standard Library.
In general, a character string is a sequence of ASCII characters that possesses two main attributes: a length and some character data. Different languages use different data structures to represent strings. To better understand the reasoning behind the design of HLA ...
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