A string is a data type [→] that stores a character, text or numbers as text.
String as data can represent a whole vasriatity of things from user names, product descriptions, file paths, user input in general etc.
Programming languages will typically denote a string by putting the characters between quotes.
Here is an example in PHP:
01: <?php
02:
03: name = "John Doe";
04:
05: description = 'John is a person';
As shown above we have two strings the first in double-qoutes and the second in single qoutes, both denote a string.
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