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      It’s short for string, a data type in pretty much every programming language which traditionally is a length followed by a sequence of characters. Another storage approach used by C is to make strings just the sequence of characters with a 0 value on the end. However this approach was an optimization for 1960s technology which had aged into being a pain in the ass by 1961.