This article is about the data structure. For other uses, see Rope (disambiguation).

In computer programming, a rope is a heavyweight string, involving the use of a concatenation tree representation. The concept was introduced in a paper called "Ropes: an Alternative to Strings".

References

• Ropes: an Alternative to Strings (PDF) by Hans-J. Boehm, Russ Atkinson and Michael Plass

Data structures