String is:exact package:base set:included-with-ghc

A String is a list of characters. String constants in Haskell are values of type String. See Data.List for operations on lists.

The String type and associated operations.

Utilities for primitive marshalling of C strings. The marshalling converts each Haskell character, representing a Unicode code point, to one or more bytes in a manner that, by default, is determined by the current locale. As a consequence, no guarantees can be made about the relative length of a Haskell string and its corresponding C string, and therefore all the marshalling routines include memory allocation. The translation between Unicode and the encoding of the current locale may be lossy.

String literal, with escapes interpreted