5.6 Strings
Some languages, like C or the original Pascal, do not have string types,
they just have related things like arrays of characters. But most
Pascals and various other languages have string types, which are
indicated as follows:
n
type-information ;
bytes- bytes is the maximum length. I'm not sure what
type-information is; I suspect that it means that this is a string
of type-information (thus allowing a string of integers, a string
of wide characters, etc., as well as a string of characters). Not sure
what the format of this type is. This is an AIX feature.
z
type-information ;
bytes- Just like ‘n’ except that this is a gstring, not an ordinary
string. I don't know the difference.
N
- Pascal Stringptr. What is this? This is an AIX feature.
Languages, such as CHILL which have a string type which is basically
just an array of characters use the ‘S’ type attribute
(see String Field).