Data Types

strings

Supported By

Description

The strings data type represents a list that consists entirely of strings.

Notes

Every single value, piece of data, list, or object can be converted to a strings in some way. A list will be converted to a list of the individual elements as strings. A single value, piece of data, or object will be converted to a single-element list of that variant as a string.

In order to use lists properly, you must declare your variables to be a kind of list. If a list is put into a variable that is undeclared, or declared to be a type other than a kind of list, the list will be converted to a single string. For example:

put (1,2,3,4) into steve
put the number of elements in steve

will print 1 because steve has only one element: the string "1,2,3,4". However, this example:

local steve as numbers
put (1,2,3,4) into steve
put the number of elements in steve

will print 4 because steve has four elements: the numbers 1, 2, 3, and 4.