APPENDIX D Internal Representation of Strings

The address representing a string is that of the first word of string characters. Each left string quote is represented internally by the word

and each right string quote by

The characters of the string which are not string quotes are packed in BCD eight characters per word. These words are in the natural order, the first immediately following the left string quote and the last immediately followed by the right string quote. If the last word before a right quote is not full, the rest of that word is filled out with zeros (not BCD blanks).

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