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November 5th 2008, 03:02 PM
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magicman
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Short answer: it can't be done.

Long answer: You can fake strings by storing some numeric representation in an integer. For example: "DINK" would be 4*26^3 + 9*26^2 + 14*26 + 11 = 76763.

However, there's no easy way for input and output with these.