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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
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    <refnamediv>
        <refname>strings</refname>
        <refpurpose>Scilab Object, character strings</refpurpose>
    </refnamediv>
    <refsection>
        <title>Description</title>
        <para>
            Strings are defined as <code>'string'</code> (between quotes) or
            <code>"string"</code> (between doublequotes);
            matrices of strings are defined as usual constant matrices.
        </para>
        <para>
            Concatenation of two strings is made by a <literal>+</literal>: <code>string1 + string2</code>.
        </para>
    </refsection>
    <refsection>
        <title>Examples</title>
        <programlisting role="example"><![CDATA[ 
['this','is'; 'a 2x2','matrix']
"matrix"=="mat"+"rix"
 ]]></programlisting>
    </refsection>
    <refsection role="see also">
        <title>See Also</title>
        <simplelist type="inline">
            <member>
                <link linkend="part">part</link>
            </member>
            <member>
                <link linkend="length">length</link>
            </member>
            <member>
                <link linkend="strcat">strcat</link>
            </member>
        </simplelist>
    </refsection>
</refentry>