Binaries, strings, and charlists — Elixir v1.17.3View Source Binaries, strings, and charlists In "Basic types", we learned a bit about strings and we used the is_binary/1 function for checks: iex> string = "hello" "hello" iex> is_binary(string) trueIn this chapter, we will gain clarity on what exactly binaries are and how they relate to strings. We will also learn about charlists, ~c"like this", which are often used for interoperability with Erl
