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<h4 class="subsection">3.1.3 String Objects</h4>
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A character string in Octave consists of a sequence of characters
enclosed in either double-quote or single-quote marks. Internally,
Octave currently stores strings as matrices of characters. All the
indexing operations that work for matrix objects also work for strings.
<p>See <a href="Strings.html#Strings">Strings</a>, for more information.
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