Article about Strings and chars

[ivan-mogilko]

I think there should be a separate article dedicated to Strings and characters, explaining the basics, and also about writing literal values (literal strings and literal characters). Among other things it needs to mention escaped sequences (\", \n). I think I saw that somewhere in the manual, but cannot find now.

[ericoporto]

I imagine it would go to the scripting language section.

https://github.com/adventuregamestudio/ags-manual/wiki/ScriptingLanguage

There's an entry there for String Formatting specifically, should it be kept as a separate article - I imagine there are links to it specifically from the functions that use it - or should it be joined in the same article? I am leaning to leave it separate but not sure on it.

This means we need a name for chapter, something like Using and writing Strings in AGS - I would keep chars in absence of the title because the name may be confusing.

I am going to briefly look into python official docs only for inspiration... In python the formatting is thrown along the string methods - in AGS this would be where strings are in the script API. https://docs.python.org/3/library/string.html

There's an entry in the python docs for string literals too (https://docs.python.org/3/reference/lexical_analysis.html#string-and-bytes-literals), but it's written like it's talking to someone writing a parser, not very friendly, but has some interesting tables and notes how escape works.

[ivan-mogilko]

String formatting is a separate topic, but may be linked from this one.
Title may be "Using Strings" or "Working with strings".

It should explain that there's a String type (reference String API).
Explain how to assign strings with string literals; mention any nuances with literals, like can they wrap onto next line (iirc old compiler had troubles with that).
Explain escaping within string literal (\", \n etc).

Tell that Strings consist of characters, and that characters are different depending on ASCII and Unicode text mode in game.
Explain character literals, how are they written; explain how character literals relate with numbers.

For advanced users: explain what const string syntax means, and how it may make custom functions slightly faster.