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2.5.2 Strings

The ECL implementation of strings is ANSI Common-Lisp compliant. Four types 'string, 'base-string, 'simple-string and 'simple-base-string are defined, but due to the lack of extended characters 'base-string and 'simple-base-string are simple aliases of 'string and 'simple-string.

A string may consists of up to 16777216 (i.e., the value of array-total-size-limit) characters. However, when a string is read, the number of characters in it (not counting escape characters) is limited to 2048.