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What is Text?

In a computer, a text is anything that can be typed.

Normally, we call text: words, phrases, sentences, and paragraphs, and we call "a text" something that is written with a series of words. In computers, everything that is typed, even if it isn't a word, is considered text. A letter, symbol, punctuation, or numeral alone is a text. A space typed with the space bar is a text. A line break inserted pressing the enter key is a text. It's all text.

That's because in the world of computers "text" is a type of data.

For example, we could say that every file path is a text, since we can type them in a program. Given that, C:\file.txt would be a "text," because it is a valid path on Windows.