# Why does Julia think a vector is a string?

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**Post date:** [August 27, 2021, 11:38am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/why-does-julia-think-a-vector-is-a-string/67078/34 "2021-08-27T11:38:55Z")

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You’re confusing strings and arrays. You have an array with mixed elements:

> [@dgpdx](#):
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> Any[“[1,2,3]”, [1, 2, 3]]

The first element is a printed representation of a string (`"[1,2,3]"`), the latter is a printed representation of an array (`[1, 2, 3]` or

```julia
[1, 2, 3]

```

doesn’t matter, as it’s _just how julia prints the array to the screen_).

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