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Examples of String Support

• Pascal
  • Not primitive; assignment and comparison only (of packed arrays)

• Ada, FORTRAN 77, FORTRAN 90 and BASIC
  • Somewhat primitive
  • Assignment, comparison, concatenation, substring reference
  • FORTRAN has an intrinsic for pattern matching
  • Examples (in Ada)
    • N := N1 & N2 (catenation)
    • N(2..4) (substring reference)

• C (and C++ for some people)
  • Not primitive
  • Use char arrays and a library of functions that provide operations