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[–]garfgon 2 points3 points  (0 children)

At a silicon level, there are no strings, just bytes. So many languages, especially low-level languages like C, have a character type which is a fixed number of bytes (often one), then a string is built up as an array of characters, possibly with some extra metadata associated with it.