Literal strings are always of type String:
julia> typeof("hello") String
This is also true if they contain UTF-8 characters that cannot be represented in ASCII, as in this example:
julia> typeof("Güdrun")String
UTF-16 and UTF-32 are also supported. Strings are contained in double quotes (" ") or triple quotes (""" """). They are immutable, which means that they cannot be altered once they have been defined:
julia> s = "Hello, Julia" julia> s[2] = 'z' ERROR: MethodError: no method matching setindex!(::String, ::Char, ::Int64)
String is a succession, or an array of characters (see the Ranges and arrays section) that can be extracted from the string by indexing it, starting from1: with str = "Julia", str[1] returns the character 'J', and str[end] returns the character 'a', the last character in the string. The index of the last byte is also given by endof(str), and length() returns the number of characters. These two are different if the string contains multi-byte Unicode characters...