Literal strings and assignmentsLiteral strings
A literal string in ScriptEase is any array of characters, that is, a string, appearing in source code within double, single, or back quotes. Back quotes are sometimes referred to as back-ticks. The following lines show examples of literal strings in ScriptEase:
"dog" // literal string (double quote)
'dog' // literal string (single quotes)
`dog` // literal string (backticks)
{'d','o','g','\0'} // not a literal string, rather
// an array initialization
Literal strings have special treatment for certain ScriptEase operations for the following reasons.
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To protect literal string data from being overwritten accidentally
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To reduce confusion for novice programmers who do not think of strings as arrays of bytes
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To simplify writing code for common operations, for example, the statement:
TestStr == "MYLONGPASSWORD"
is simpler than :
Clib.strcmp(TestStr, "MYLONGPASSWORD").
In general, literal strings adhere to the two following rules.
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Comparisons are intrinsically handled by Clib.strcmp()
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Assignment and passing of literal strings is done by making copies of the literal string
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