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andAlso, [[Stringstring Theorytheory]] (of cosmology/physics).
 
 
 
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The first paragraph seems too "busy" to me. What about replacing it with something like this?
 
 
 
:A '''string''' (or '''string of characters''') is a data type used in most [[programming language]]s to represent text, and is the focus of this article.
 
 
 
:The computing term ''string'' is also used in a broader sense to group a sequence of entities; for example, tokens in a language grammar, or a sequence of states in automata. See the theory of [[computation]].