12 The LISPWORKS Package

text-string

Type

Summary

The text string type.

Package

lispworks

Signature

text-string length

Arguments

length: The length of the string (or*, meaning any).

Description

The type of strings that can hold any simple character, that is,(vector lw:simple-char length). This is the string type that is guaranteed to always hold any character used in writing text (program text or natural language), but not necessarily key event descriptors and other such character objects.

In the current HCL implementation, it is equivalent to8-bit-string; in DBCS images, it is equivalent to16-bit-string.

See also

8-bit-string 16-bit-string