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@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ You can read these chapters as you need them; they're designed to be largely sta
     You'll learn more about counting and a bunch of important transformation and summary functions.
 
 -   @sec-strings will give you the tools to work with strings: you'll slice them, you'll dice them, and you'll stick them back together again.
-    This chapter mostly focuses on the stringr package, but you'll also learn some more tidyr functions devoted to extracting data from strings.
+    This chapter mostly focuses on the stringr package, but you'll also learn some more tidyr functions devoted to extracting data from character strings.
 
 -   @sec-regular-expressions introduces you to regular expressions, a powerful tool for manipulating strings.
     This chapter will take you from thinking that a cat walked over your keyboard to reading and writing complex string patterns.