Posted by NoWhereMan on 05/16/07 11:32

On Tue, 15 May 2007 22:13:23 +0100, Toby A Inkster wrote:

> NoWhereMan wrote:
>
>> I'm not sure they're not garbage collected as, say, arrays; in fact strings
>> are always array of chars,
>
> No, they're not. Strings are arrays of characters in C, but not in PHP
> where they're a primitive data type -- nothing to do with arrays.

oc course, what I meant is that *internally* they should be vectors of
chars, as there's no such thing like a primitive string datatype in C

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