Glossary entry

English term or phrase:

software strings

English answer:

any individuall text component of the SW

Added to glossary by Martin Harvey
Feb 16, 2005 22:11
19 yrs ago
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English term

software strings

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Please excuse my ignorance, but I'm filling out a form for an agency and am supposed to enter some rate for the label "software strings". In all honesty, I have started to use Trados a short while ago. Could anyone please explained to me what these "software strings" are. Thank you.

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any individuall text component of the SW

Could be a command, a message, an option, anything that the SW handles as an individual element or string.

Usually these are with in quotes (in RC files), or separated by codes or other means, depending on the format of the SW.

Peer comment(s):

agree Sven Petersson
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agree pike
1 hr
agree Alex Lane : Think of a "string" of characters, one after the other.
1 hr
agree Jörgen Slet
6 hrs
agree Mathew Robinson : but important to note that any translatable text is usually surrounded by 10 times as much code that must not be altered.
1 day 12 hrs
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phrases to be used in software

My understanding is that these are warnings or error messages that may be listed in a file and used by the software depending on the condition.

You have very little context with them, they might read:

Bus error. Core dumped.

and that is it.
Peer comment(s):

agree pike
1 hr
agree Jörgen Slet
6 hrs
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