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<MAN>
  <LANGUAGE>eng</LANGUAGE>
  <TITLE>strings</TITLE>
  <TYPE>Scilab Object</TYPE>
  <DATE>April 1993</DATE>
  <SHORT_DESCRIPTION name="strings"> Scilab Object, character strings</SHORT_DESCRIPTION>
  <DESCRIPTION>
    <P>
    Strings are defined as <VERB>'string'</VERB> (between quotes) or 
    <VERB>&quot;string&quot;</VERB> (between doublequotes);
    matrices of strings are defined as usual constant matrices.</P>
    <P>
    Concatenation of two strings is made by a <VERB>+</VERB> : <VERB>string1+string2</VERB>.</P>
  </DESCRIPTION>
  <EXAMPLE>
<![CDATA[
['this','is'; 'a 2x2','matrix']
"matrix"=="mat"+"rix"
 ]]>
  </EXAMPLE>
  <SEE_ALSO>
    <SEE_ALSO_ITEM>
      <LINK>part</LINK>
    </SEE_ALSO_ITEM>
    <SEE_ALSO_ITEM>
      <LINK>length</LINK>
    </SEE_ALSO_ITEM>
    <SEE_ALSO_ITEM>
      <LINK>strcat</LINK>
    </SEE_ALSO_ITEM>
  </SEE_ALSO>
</MAN>
