Quake c string

Quake C strings are one of the primitive types of Quake C. They are zero-terminated sequences of characters. Vanilla quake c offers no straightforward ways to modify a string once it is created and no way to combine existing strings into a new string.

Much like the C programming language, strings in QuakeC have escape characters:

character	result
\n	new line
\"	"
\0	unknown
{{	{
}}	}

The 2021 release uses curly-braces as a delimiter/replacement shorthand

Searching through the existing entities in the world of quake can be done by strings

Strings can be printed/output to screen with a number of different methods

file paths are strings

see also:

ftos creates a string from a floating point number

vtos creates a string representation of a vector