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Strings (cont)

ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange)
  • Specifies mapping of 128 characters to integers 0..127
  • The characters encoded include:
    • upper and lower case English letters: A-Z and a-z
    • digits: 0-9
    • common punctuation symbols
    • special non-printing characters: e.g. newline and space

[Diagram:Pic/ascii.png]