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On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 9:57 PM, Linus Phan <linusphan / yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am still learning Ruby, my question is,
>
> what is a string and what is a string literal? If possible, can you give
> me an example of both. Any help would be much appreciated.
>

First Google hit for "ruby doc string"
# http://ruby-doc.org/core-1.9.3/String.html

"... A String object holds and manipulates an
arbitrary sequence of bytes, typically representing characters. ..."

A string literal is piece of _code_ that is used to initialize a string:

E.g.

  "this is a string literal"

so the line

  s  this is a string literal"

assigns the string literal (the part between " ") to the string s.

HTH,

Peter




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