It turns out when we call string a string, we're really referring not to those characters but to the address, the location and memory of those characters.

当我说字符串时，我并不是指这些字符集,而是指地址，就是这些字符集在存储器中的位置。

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Even though my statement said enter a number, in particular, raw input here simply takes in a set of characters and treats it as a string.

即使我的陈述说的是应该输入一个数字，实际上，这里的原始输入会被当做一个字符,的集合来提取并被当做一个字符串来对待。

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It's just a chunk of characters back to back to back so this is storing at the very first location in the string what?

它只是一串紧邻的字母串,所以它把什么存储在,字符串的第一个地址下？

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A string is a contiguous sequence of characters aka bytes.

字符串就是一串,字符，亦称字节。

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A string is just a sequence of characters.

一个字符串是由一系列字母构成。

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I mean what if you're running so many things, what if the user has copied and pasted their thesis and just pasted it at the blinking prompt such that you're now out of memory because your computer is somewhat limited in memory so get string cannot possibly return all those characters or fit all of those characters in memory and return to you the address of the first.

如果你运行了很多程序，假使用户复制粘贴了他们的论文,只是粘贴在光标提示符那里,这样就出现了内存不足,因为你们的计算机的内存是有限的,所以GetString不可能返回所有的字符,或者保存这些字符到内存中,并且返回第一个字符的地址。

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