Strings

In a text file, a string is a sequence of ASCII text symbols enclosed in double quotation marks.

Only the following escape sequences may occur in a text file string:

\n: newline
\r: carriage return
\t: horizontal tab
\v: vertical tab
\\: backslash
\': single quotation mark
\": double quotation mark

In a binary file, a string is represented by a string of zero-terminated padded characters. The size of a string in a binary file is determined as follows (note that we add 1 to the length to account for the terminating \0):



 
    len = strlen(string) + 1;

    remainder = len % 4;

    pad = ( (remainder > 0) ? (4 - remainder) : 0 );

    size = len + pad;

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