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   string

   /striNG/

   noun

   • 1. material consisting of threads of cotton, hemp, or other material twisted together to form a thin length: "unwieldy packs tied up with string" Similar twinecordyarnthreadstrandfiberropecablelinewireligaturethonghawserrare:fillis
   • ▪ a piece of string used to tie around or attach to something: "the elephant mask had a trunk you could raise by pulling a string"
   • ▪ a piece of catgut or similar material interwoven with others to form the head of a sports racket.
   • ▪ a length of catgut or wire on a musical instrument, producing a note by vibration: "the D string broke"
   • ▪ the stringed instruments in an orchestra: "the blend of the wind-group is less perfect than that of the strings" Similar stringed instruments
   • ▪ relating to or consisting of stringed instruments: "a string quartet"
   • 2. a set of things tied or threaded together on a thin cord: "she wore a string of agates around her throat" Similar strandropenecklacerosarychaplet
   • ▪ a sequence of similar items or events: "a string of burglaries" Similar seriessuccessionchainsequenceconcatenationrunstreakpattern
   • ▪ a linear sequence of characters, words, or other data.
   • ▪ a group of racehorses trained at one stable.
   • ▪ a team or player holding a specified position in an order of preference: "Gary was first string on the varsity football team"
   • 3. a tough piece of fiber in vegetables, meat, or other food, such as a tough elongated piece connecting the two halves of a bean pod.
   • 4. short for stringboard
   • 5. a hypothetical one-dimensional subatomic particle having the dynamical properties of a flexible loop.
   • ▪ a hypothetical threadlike concentration of energy within the structure of space–time.

   verb

   • 1. hang (something) so that it stretches in a long line: "lights were strung across the promenade" Similar hangsuspendslingstretchthreadloopfestoonstretchslingrunfastentiesecurelink
   • ▪ thread (a series of small objects) on a string: "he collected stones with holes in them and strung them on a strong cord" Similar threadlooplinkjoin
   • ▪ be arranged in a long line: "the houses were strung along the road"
   • 2. fit a string or strings to (a musical instrument, a racket, or a bow): "the harp had been newly strung"
   • 3. remove the strings from (a bean).
   • 4. another term for lag British

   Word Origin Old Englishstreng (noun), of Germanic origin; related to German Strang, also to strong. The verb (dating from late Middle English) is first recorded in the senses ‘arrange in a row’ and ‘fit with a string’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. stringless adjective
   • 2. stringlike adjective

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2. stackoverflow.com › questions › 5545570c++ - const string vs. #define - Stack Overflow

   stackoverflow.com › questions › 5545570

   5. If it's C++, you should use the C++ Standard Library's std::string. It's much more clear than a preprocessor macro, it will have a single location in memory when it's defined, and it has all the extra functionality of std::string instead of only pointer comparisons as is the case with the implicit const char* that are created with a ...

3. stackoverflow.com › questions › 1431576How do you declare string constants in C? - Stack Overflow

   stackoverflow.com › questions › 1431576

   Aug 15, 2012 · const char *HELLO2 = "Howdy"; The statement above can be changed with c code. Now you can't change the each individual character around like the statement below because its constant. HELLO2[0] = 'a'. But you what you can do is have it point to a different string like the statement below. HELLO2 = "HELLO WOLRD".

4. stackoverflow.com › questions › 8588384c# - How to define an enum with string value? - Stack Overflow

   stackoverflow.com › questions › 8588384

   Dec 21, 2011 · 147. You can achieve it but it will require a bit of work. Define an attribute class which will contain the string value for enum. Define an extension method which will return back the value from the attribute. e.g. GetStringValue(this Enum value) will return attribute value. Then you can define the enum like this..

5. stackoverflow.com › questions › 2410976How can I define a string literal on the GCC command line?

   stackoverflow.com › questions › 2410976

   Two options. First, escape the quotation marks so the shell doesn't eat them: gcc -Dname=\"Mary\". Or, if you really want -Dname=Mary, you can stringize it, though it's a bit hacky. #include <stdio.h>. #define STRINGIZE(x) #x. #define STRINGIZE_VALUE_OF(x) STRINGIZE(x) int main(int argc, char *argv[])

6. stackoverflow.com › questions › 2564298Java: how to initialize String[]? - Stack Overflow

   stackoverflow.com › questions › 2564298

   Apr 1, 2010 · 2. You can always write it like this. String[] errorSoon = {"Hello","World"}; For (int x=0;x<errorSoon.length;x++) // in this way u create a for loop that would like display the elements which are inside the array errorSoon.oh errorSoon.length is the same as errorSoon<2. {. System.out.println(" "+errorSoon[x]); // this will output those two ...

7. stackoverflow.com › questions › 19369132Declare and Initialize String Array in VBA - Stack Overflow

   stackoverflow.com › questions › 19369132

   Oct 14, 2013 · In the specific case of a String array you could initialize the array using the Split Function as it returns a String array rather than a Variant array: Dim arrWsNames() As String arrWsNames = Split("Value1,Value2,Value3", ",") This allows you to avoid using the Variant data type and preserve the desired type for arrWsNames.

8. stackoverflow.com › questions › 1504871c# - Options for initializing a string array - Stack Overflow

   stackoverflow.com › questions › 1504871

   Sep 3, 2013 · Learn how to initialize a string array in c with different methods and examples from Stack Overflow experts.

9. stackoverflow.com › questions › 1135841c++ - How to write a multi-line string literal - Stack Overflow

   stackoverflow.com › questions › 1135841

   Jul 16, 2009 · 32. A probably convenient way to enter multi-line strings is by using macro's. This only works if quotes and parentheses are balanced and it does not contain 'top level' comma's: #define MULTI_LINE_STRING (a) #a const char *text = MULTI_LINE_STRING ( Using this trick (,) you don't need to use quotes.

10. stackoverflow.com › questions › 5256313C/C++ macro string concatenation - Stack Overflow

    stackoverflow.com › questions › 5256313

    Mar 10, 2011 · If they're both strings you can just do: #define STR3 STR1 STR2. This then expands to: #define STR3 "s" "1". and in the C language, separating two strings with space as in "s" "1" is exactly equivalent to having a single string "s1". edited Nov 3, 2020 at 8:12. Ciro Santilli OurBigBook.com. 375k 114 1.3k 1k.

11. stackoverflow.com › questions › 1398164Initialize a string variable in Python: "" or None?

    stackoverflow.com › questions › 1398164

    17. Another way to initialize an empty string is by using the built-in str() function with no arguments. str (object='') Return a string containing a nicely printable representation of an object. ... If no argument is given, returns the empty string, ''. In the original example, that would look like this: def __init__(self, mystr=str()) self ...