between string representations of topologies can be found by normalizing according to the lexicographically minimal string rotation. See also Binary-safe — a property of string manipulating functions treating their input as raw data stream Bit array — a string of binary digits C string handling — overview of C string handling C++ string handling — overview of C++ string handling Comparison of programming languages (string functions) Connection string — passed to a driver to initiate a connection (e.g., to a database) Empty string — its properties and representation in programming languages Incompressible string — a string that cannot be compressed by any algorithm Rope (data structure) — a data structure for efficiently manipulating long strings String metric — notions of similarity between strings References Character encoding Data types Formal languages Combinatorics on words Primitive types Syntactic entities Algorithms on strings