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A counted string is not reference counted.

A counted string can be viewed as

type counted_string is record
   max : natural; 
   len : natural;
   str : array range ( 1 .. max) of character;
end record;

The best known environment which uses counted strings is Turbo Pascal. Note that I wrote "uses". It is still being used in education.