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+    Nokia Corporation - initial contribution.
+Contributors: 
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+<!DOCTYPE concept
+  PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DITA Concept//EN" "concept.dtd">
+<concept id="GUID-A668C70B-1AFF-5D58-9527-8530E2472227" xml:lang="en"><title>Buffers
+And Strings Overview</title><shortdesc>This document provides an overview of buffers and strings.</shortdesc><prolog><metadata><keywords/></metadata></prolog><conbody>
+<section id="GUID-247120B1-68AD-4827-B7B3-AE9696BE7F8E"><title>Purpose</title> <p>Manipulates
+strings and general data buffers.</p> </section>
+<section id="GUID-775BAD91-2920-4027-9E47-C727847A45DD"><title>Description</title> <p>The
+central Symbian platform idiom for both strings and buffers is descriptors.
+Some APIs in this group, such as Literals, Lexical Analysis, and Package Buffers
+provide additional descriptor handling facilities. In some circumstances,
+applications may need to manage raw data buffers directly in memory. For this,
+the Dynamic Buffers and Raw Memory APIs are available.</p> <p><b>APIs</b> </p> <p>Use the APIs as follows:</p> <p><xref href="GUID-21C04887-9F9C-5066-AA1D-B30C433CC0AE.dita">Circular
+Buffers Overview</xref> </p> <p>Provides a fixed length first-in first-out
+queue of fixed size objects. </p> <p><xref href="GUID-0817AD1D-58CF-5108-ACBF-26DFD4BA395E.dita">Descriptors
+Overview</xref> </p> <p>Manipulates string and data buffer.</p> <p><xref href="GUID-C15F56E3-753C-55CA-B3EF-63B2D139BCE4.dita">Dynamic
+Buffers Overview</xref> </p> <p>Manipulates data buffers of variable length.</p> <p><xref href="GUID-2E22CB5B-E648-5760-AB74-8947C7EDE2CF.dita">Lexical Analysis Overview</xref> </p> <p>Provides
+string analysis and string-to-number conversions.</p> <p><xref href="GUID-106B5A31-012E-503D-A972-A745ECADC1E7.dita">Literals
+Overview</xref> </p> <p>Provides simple creation of descriptors that contain
+read-only literal text.</p> <p><xref href="GUID-E189B0C0-AAB5-5472-996B-91043DE0B6D4.dita">Package
+Buffers Overview</xref> </p> <p>Allows any value type (<codeph>T</codeph> class)
+to be encapsulated as a descriptor, for the purpose of inter-thread parameter
+passing.</p> <p><xref href="GUID-506642C2-A14F-55F2-9377-43DDB14F4053.dita">Raw
+Memory Overview</xref>  </p> <p>Performs simple manipulations of data in memory.</p> </section>
+<section id="GUID-0FA9F64E-BE2B-4BF0-9E20-24758DBD3660"><title>See also</title> <p><xref href="GUID-EA98D77C-743B-5BA5-B131-A327B12A099C.dita">Character Representation
+Of Real Numbers Overview</xref> </p> <p><xref href="GUID-D0D27AEA-FDDB-5F6F-94F6-ADDF5910DC47.dita">Client/Server
+Overview</xref> </p> <p><xref href="GUID-B1BDF68C-F989-56BD-AED4-727595D7355C.dita">Doubly
+Linked Lists Overview</xref> </p> <p><xref href="GUID-54417A4F-710D-5257-BF49-13D9F28C92B9.dita">Memory
+Management Overview</xref> </p> </section>
+</conbody></concept>
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