Difference between revisions of "SHIP:Data Types:String"

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See Also

• All Data Types

• SHIP Text Model Reference
• SHIP Language Support
• string and text nodes
• SHIP Sail String Functions

String

Stings in SHIP are a sequence of UTF8 characters terminated in an implicit end-of-string character.

String constants are written in Sail Scripts enclosed in double quotes ("), and can be concatenated using the + operator.

Examples

This is an example of assigning a String constant to a text node within a Sail script:

 text.value = "hello";

And this example shows string concatenation:

 text.value = "hello" + " " + "there";

Within Sail scripts you can access the Unicode codepoints within a string, access portions of the string, and more using the Sail String Functions.

You can define strings with alternate language translations using string and text nodes. These translated string resources can be combined at runtime in Sail scripts to form larger strings, for example if you have a string resource:

tWelcome
  enUS: Welcome
  frFR: Bienvenue

a Sail script can combine these using simple concatenation:

text.value = tWelcome + " Terry";