character string constant
character string constant
[′kar·ik·tər ‚striŋ ‚kän·stənt] (computer science)
An arbitrary combination of letters, digits, and other symbols which, in the processing of nonnumeric data involving character strings, performs a function analogous to that of a numeric constant in the processing of numeric data.
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