@solonovamax it's just not encoded into the type system (a string char* is the same type as a non-string char*) but C (or at least libc) definitely does have the concept of a string

@solonovamax char array != string, but (C) strings are a subset of char arrays (specifically null-terminated char arrays). confusingly, the C standard library also has some functions that operate on null-padded character sequences (stncpy, stpncpy, strncat, strndup) which are char arrays but are not strings, despite those functions being named as if they operate on strings

@solonovamax IVAN uses its own string type for some reason (in C++). Also, a null-terminated char array is a string, otherwise C doesn’t have strings.