The word string is just a synonym for what?

单词和字符串一定程度上是同义词？

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So if I want to use a string as we'll call it which is a word or phrase generally, they always go between double quotes, David hence the quotes around David, and they are double quotes not single quotes intentionally.

当我们要表示单词啊，词组啊，句子啊等等这样的东西时,就会用到字符串，它们位于双引号之间，也就是这里双引号之间的，是双引号，不是单引号哦。

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When you've been typing in words to the keyboard like your name or any word that you're trying to provide to the user, a string really looks like this.

当你们通过键盘键入单词，比如你的名字,或者你想提供给用户的任何单词，一个字符串实际上看起来就是这样。

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So it does that for us so that you can get away with just knowing the address of the first byte and it will make sure that you know when to stop by including the special value so, in fact, get the string if you type in a three-letter word, we allocate four bytes no matter what because we need an additional byte 0 for this special sentinel value back slash zero at the very end.

它为我们做了这些事情，这样我们就可以,通过第一个字节的地址,它还可以通过包含一个特殊的值,来保证在哪里停止，如果你输入了一个三个字母的单词,就可以获得那个字符串，不管怎样，我们分配四个字节,因为我们在末端需要一个额外的字节,来保存这个特殊的标志值--反斜杠。

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I certainly don't want to assume they're always going to type a three-letter or a four-letter or a two-letter word I want some dynamism but that's fine because get string can get a string of any length, I can then use the string length function to just ask while the program is running how big is the string that I was handed?

当然我不能假设他总是,输入3个字符或4个字符,或2个字符的单词，我想要动态地分配,因为GetString可以获得任意长度的字符串，然后我可以使用strlen函数,来得到那个我传递的字符串,有多长？

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