Printing Strings (ANSI and GNU Common Lisp Document)

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#### 22.1.3.12 Printing Strings

The characters of the string are output in order.

If printer escaping is enabled,

a double-quote is output before and after, and all double-quotes and single escapes are preceded by backslash. The printing of strings is not affected by *print-array*. Only the active elements of the string are printed.

For information on how the Lisp reader parses strings, see Double-Quote.