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A string is an array of characters. Strings are used for many purposes in Emacs, as can be expected in a text editor; for example, as the names of Lisp symbols, as messages for the user, and to represent text extracted from buffers. Strings in Lisp are constants: evaluation of a string returns the same string.
See Strings and Characters, for functions that operate on strings.
| • Syntax for Strings: | How to specify Lisp strings. | |
| • Non-ASCII in Strings: | International characters in strings. | |
| • Nonprinting Characters: | Literal unprintable characters in strings. | |
| • Text Props and Strings: | Strings with text properties. |