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literal

English translation: letters

16:06 Mar 31, 2016
Spanish to English translations [Non-PRO]
Tech/Engineering - IT (Information Technology)
Spanish term or phrase: literal
instructions for a computer login process. The complete phrase is: El nombre de rol debe comenzar con el literal 'GIPI_'

Any help would be much appreciated.
Amy7259
Spain
English translation:letters
Explanation:
Or characters, or string.

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Note added at 2 mins (2016-03-31 16:08:39 GMT)
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Characters, since they include an underscore.
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philgoddard
United States
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thank you
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philgoddard
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Robert Carter


  

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2 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
letters


Explanation:
Or characters, or string.

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Note added at 2 mins (2016-03-31 16:08:39 GMT)
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Characters, since they include an underscore.

philgoddard
United States
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 44
Grading comment
thank you

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Jennifer Levey: characters
1 min
neutral  Robert Carter: They're not simply characters, Phil.//Ok, granted, so are ".doc" or ".pdf" but they have a name, they're called filename extensions.
2 days 10 hrs
  -> Yes they are, GIPI_.
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2 days 10 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
literal


Explanation:
Literal may refer to:
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Literal (computer programming), a notation for representing a value within programming language source code
A chunk of input data that is represented "as is" in data compressed using data compression
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literal

Literal (computer science)
In computer science, a literal is a notation for representing a fixed value in source code. Almost all programming languages have notations for atomic values such as integers, floating-point numbers, and strings, and usually for booleans and characters; some also have notations for elements of enumerated types and compound values such as arrays, records, and objects. An anonymous function is a literal for the function type.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literal_(computer_programming)

Lempel-Ziv compression[1] is based on replacing sequences of bytes by references to matching sequences already processed by the encoder. The references are called matches. The data which don't have any matches are left unmodified. Those are called literals. See Fig. 1[4] as an example.
http://unicode.org/notes/tn31/



Robert Carter
Mexico
Local time: 14:59
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 12
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