note 126043 rejected from language.types.string by cmb

Note Submitter: alain dot fouere at wanadoo dot fr ---- I've been a programmer in assembler(8086), GwBasic, C (++), Java (bytecode), etc. for a long time. I read in the present page : "Strings A string is series of characters, where a character is the same as a byte. This means that PHP only supports a 256-character set, ... ..... Details of the String Type The string in PHP is implemented as an array of bytes and an integer indicating the length of the buffer. ..... " Therefore I'm quite sure that a PHP string (a Zend string) IS NOT an array() i.e. a map with keys and values, but an "array as in Pascal"(size indicated, no ending NULL char) ! Hey guys, may you clearly and precisely explain this here ? Sincerely. Alain.