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Move String literal and inline array FAQ items
Fix tab Update docs/types.rst Co-Authored-By: ChrisChinchilla <chriswhward@gmail.com> Update docs/types.rst Co-Authored-By: ChrisChinchilla <chriswhward@gmail.com>
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.. index:: literal, literal;string, string
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.. _string_literals:
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String Literals
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---------------
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String Literals and Types
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-------------------------
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String literals are written with either double or single-quotes (``"foo"`` or ``'bar'``). They do not imply trailing zeroes as in C; ``"foo"`` represents three bytes, not four. As with integer literals, their type can vary, but they are implicitly convertible to ``bytes1``, ..., ``bytes32``, if they fit, to ``bytes`` and to ``string``.
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For example, with ``bytes32 samevar = "stringliteral"`` the string literal is interpreted in its raw byte form when assigned to a ``bytes32`` type.
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String literals support the following escape characters:
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- ``\<newline>`` (escapes an actual newline)
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}
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.. index:: ! array;literals, !inline;arrays
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.. index:: ! array;literals, ! inline;arrays
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Array Literals / Inline Arrays
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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Array Literals
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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Array literals are arrays that are written as an expression and are not
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assigned to a variable right away.
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An array literal is a comma-separated list of one or more expressions, enclosed
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in square brackets (``[...]``). For example ``[1, a, f(3)]``. There must be a
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common type all elements can be implicitly converted to. This is the elementary
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type of the array.
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Array literals are always statically-sized memory arrays.
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In the example below, the type of ``[1, 2, 3]`` is
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``uint8[3] memory``. Because the type of each of these constants is ``uint8``, if you want the result to be a ``uint[3] memory`` type, you need to convert the first element to ``uint``.
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::
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}
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The type of an array literal is a memory array of fixed size whose base
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type is the common type of the given elements. The type of ``[1, 2, 3]`` is
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``uint8[3] memory``, because the type of each of these constants is ``uint8``.
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Because of that, it is necessary to convert the first element in the example
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above to ``uint``. Note that currently, fixed size memory arrays cannot
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be assigned to dynamically-sized memory arrays, i.e. the following is not
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possible:
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Fixed size memory arrays cannot be assigned to dynamically-sized memory arrays, i.e. the following is not possible:
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}
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It is planned to remove this restriction in the future but currently creates
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some complications because of how arrays are passed in the ABI.
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It is planned to remove this restriction in the future, but it creates some
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complications because of how arrays are passed in the ABI.
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.. index:: ! array;length, length, push, pop, !array;push, !array;pop
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