Strings

Strings are unstructured text fragments of any length. They’re a common and useful data type.

Strings can interpolate other values, and can use escape sequences to represent characters that are inconvenient or impossible to write literally. You can access substrings of a string by numerical index.

There are four ways to write literal strings in the Puppet language:

• Bare words

• Single-quoted strings

• Double-quoted strings

• Heredocs

Each of these have slightly different behavior around syntax, interpolation features, and escape sequences.