[NAME]
ALL.dao.type.string

[TITLE]
String Type

[DESCRIPTION]

string is a primitive data type that represents a sequence of bytes. Dao strings are not
null-terminated, so they are effectively byte  arrays that can be used to store any seque
nces of bytes. But when processed as text, it is usually assumed to be encoded in UTF-8.

 0.1  Basic Definition 

Strings can be expressed as string literals quoted with double or single quotation marks.
     
   1  SingleQuoteString ::= ' ' ' ValidCharSequence ' ' '
   2  DoubleQuoteString ::= ' " ' ValidCharSequence ' " '
     
where ValidCharSequence can be anything but the quotation marks without backslash escapes
. Any character in a string can be preceded with a escape backslash to specify a charater
represented by: 
  *  Single decimal digit: \d;
  *  Octal value with upto 3 digits: \ooo;
  *  Hexidecial value with upto 2 digits prefixed by x:  \xhh;
  *  Hexidecial value with upto 4 digits prefixed by u:  \uhhhh;
  *  Hexidecial value with upto 8 digits prefixed by U:  \Uhhhhhhhh; 
Here, these numbers will be interpreted as ASCII codes or UTF-8 codepoints. With backslas
h escapes, a tab can also be represtend by \t, and a line break by \n and a carriage retu
rn by \r. Any other character escaped by a backslash literally represents that character 
itself.

 0.2  Verbatim String 

A verbatim string is a string that can contain anything without interpreting escape chara
cters. 
     
   1  VerbatimString ::= '@[' [Delimiter] ']' Characters '@[' [Delimiter] ']'
     
Where Delimiter can contain letters, digits, underscores,  blank spaces, dots, colons, da
shes and assignment marks. It must be unique such that '@[' [Delimiter] ']' does not appe
ar in the string content.

 0.3  Examples 

     
   1  var mbs = 'hello'
   2  var wcs = "道语言"
   3  var mbs2 = 'It\'s green'
   4  var wcs2 = "\u9053\u8bed\u8a00" # the same as wcs;
   5  
   6  # verbatim strings:
   7  var mbs = @[] some text @[]
   8  
   9  # C++ codes in verbatim string:
  10  var cpp =
  11  @[cpp x]
  12  class AA
  13  {
  14  	int index;
  15  };
  16  struct BB{};
  17  @[cpp x]
  18  
  19  
  20  # Lua codes in verbatim string:
  21  var lua =
  22  @[lua]
  23  local a = 1;
  24  function Test()
  25  	io.write( 'Hello' )
  26  end
  27  @[lua]
  28  
  29  # HTML codes in verbatim string:
  30  var html =
  31  @[html:123456]
  32  <body>
  33  <span name="test"></span>
  34  </body>
  35  @[html:123456]
     



[STRUCTURE]

dao.type.string--| dao.type.string: String Type (25.4 KB)
                 |--pattern--| dao.type.string.pattern: String Pattern Matching (11.8 KB)
                 |--method---| dao.type.string.method: Dao string methods (11.1 KB)