Strings are arrays of characters that can be printed
in a text box, said by an object, read from the user,
and manipulated with string functions.
string Name; // unique empty string
string NameList[20]; // array of unique empty strings
It is usually necessary to declare any string that is
modified during the game, because any matching literal
strings will share the same index in the game's string
table (so if one is modified, the others are too).
Declaring the string guarantees that it has a unique
entry in the string table. All strings declared in this
way are initialized to by empty.
Arrays of strings are useful for allocating multiple
unique entries in the string table. The subscript value in the
declaration must be a positive number. The strings in an array
of N elements are indexed from 0 to N minus 1.
Remember, it is not possible to assign one string to
another, as it is with variables. Strings are really just
constant indecies into the string table, so you must use
string functions to copy them instead.
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