it is a <a href="#Type_definitions">defined type</a>.
</p>

<p>
The length of a string <code>s</code> can be discovered using
the built-in function <a href="#Length_and_capacity"><code>len</code></a>.
The length is a compile-time constant if the string is a constant.
A string's bytes can be accessed by integer <a href="#Index_expressions">indices</a>
0 through <code>len(s)-1</code>.
It is illegal to take the address of such an element; if

* Implementers of the cloud provider interface will note the addition of a context to this interface. Trivial code modification will be necessary for a cloud provider to continue to compile. ([#59287](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/59287), [@cheftako](https://github.com/cheftako))

- CEL regex patterns in x-kubernetes-valiation rules are compiled when CRDs are created/updated if the pattern is provided as a string constant in the expression. Any regex compile errors are reported as a CRD create/update validation error. ([#108617](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/108617), [@jpbetz](https://github.com/jpbetz))