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MINOR: [Docs] Clarify inlined strings in VariableLengthStringView is padded with 0 #40512

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Expand Up @@ -393,7 +393,8 @@ length of the string and can be used to determine how the rest of the view
should be interpreted.

In the short string case the string's bytes are inlined — stored inside the
view itself, in the twelve bytes which follow the length.
view itself, in the twelve bytes which follow the length. Any remaining bytes
after the string itself are padded with `0`.

In the long string case, a buffer index indicates which data buffer
stores the data bytes and an offset indicates where in that buffer the
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