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Strings have the usual meaning: a sequence of characters. Lua is eight-bit clean and so strings may contain characters with any numeric value, including embedded zeros. That means that you can store any binary data into a string. See [http://www.lua.org/pil/2.4.html Programming in Lua].
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From the Lua 5.1 [http://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/manual.html#2.2 reference manual §2.2]:
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String represents arrays of characters. Lua is 8-bit clean: strings can contain any 8-bit character, including embedded zeros ('\0') (see [http://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/manual.html#2.1 §2.1]).
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[[Category:Lua]]
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== Other Languages ==
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Latest revision as of 23:01, 5 February 2012

From the Lua 5.1 reference manual §2.2:

String represents arrays of characters. Lua is 8-bit clean: strings can contain any 8-bit character, including embedded zeros ('\0') (see §2.1).

Other Languages