I'm sorry:
Let's see:
- Java String - one meaning text, UTF-16 encoded
Nope, in Java a String is a data type that derives from Object which stores an immutable sequence of 16-bit characters. Not necessarily *text*, and it just so happens that it chooses the UTF-16 encoding. AFAIK you can still stuff arbitrary bytes when constructing a String object -- try reading from a binary file and see what I mean.
http://download.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/lang/String.html Some methods: - toLowerCase() - toUpperCase() - trim(); - equalsIgnoreCase(); They don't have any sense for non-text storage. The fact you can fill it with garbage does not change the fact it is text oriented storage
- C# string - one meaning text, UTF-16 encoded
Sequence of UTF-16 characters. Not sure if it's immutable.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.string.aspx Some methods: - IsNormalized() - Normalize() - ToLower() - ToUpper() etc. They don't have any sense for non-text storage. The fact you can fill it with garbage does not change the fact it is text oriented storage
- C++/GTKmm ustring - one meaning text, UTF-8 encoded
Sequence of characters, just so happens to be UTF-8 encoded.
http://library.gnome.org/devel/glibmm/unstable/classGlib_1_1ustring.html Some member functions: - collate_key() - normalize() - uppercase() - lowercase() - casefold() They don't have any sense for non-text storage. The fact you can fill it with garbage does not change the fact it is text oriented storage ------------------------------------------- As you probably understand same for QString, wxString and others.
No, maybe *you* say string when TEXT is what you mean.bytes*.
No I mean that when you say "String" you mean "Text" and not only me but all language developers around who developed so many tools for string/text provessing. It is not accident that String means Text in CS context. You may not agree or say English is wrong or Translation is Wrong - but the fact remains: String is Text Storage in most common CS context. If you still not sure about it make a poll and ask you colleges what string means for them - sequence of objects or text. Artyom