String

String -- the class of all strings.

A string is thing which contains a sequence of characters (bytes). A string is entered as a sequence of characters surrounded by double quotation marks.

     i1 = "abcd"
     
     o1 = "abcd"

Newline characters can be included. There are escape sequences which make it possible to enter special characters:

             \n             newline
             \f             form feed
             \\             \ 
             \"             "
             \t             tab
             \xxx           ascii character with octal value xxx

Operations on strings:

s#i -- getting a character from a string

s|t -- concatenation

ascii -- ASCII conversion

substring -- substring extraction

concatenate -- concatenation

characters -- extraction of characters

# -- length of a string

stringlen -- length of a generalized string

transnet -- convert integers into network order

match -- match patterns