Type

Summary

The text string type.

Package

lispworks

Signature

text-string length

Arguments

length

The length of the string (or * , meaning any).

Description

The type of strings that can hold any simple character, that is, (vector lw:simple-char length) . This is the string type that is guaranteed to always hold any character used in writing text (program text or natural language). It will not hold character objects which have non-null attributes.

It is equivalent to 16-bit-string .

See also

8-bit-string
16-bit-string