8-bit-string

8-bit-string Type

Summary

The 8 bit string type.

Package

lispworks

Signature

8-bit-string &optional length

Arguments

length⇩

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

Description

Instances of the type 8-bit-string are strings that can hold simple chars of codes 0…255. This is the string type that is guaranteed to always take 8 bits per element.

If length is not *, then it constrains the length of the string to that number of elements.