String

A String is text, written in double quotes. Its functions are called on it with a dot:

"Ada Lovelace".upper()

"ADA LOVELACE"

Its length counts characters, not bytes:

"héllo".length()

5

A position reads one character. It may be past the end, so it gives an Option<String>, printed as the character when it is present:

"Dune"[0]

"D"

Strings are not added with +. fmt writes values into a template, one {} each, and join puts a list of strings together:

[fmt("{} has {} pages", "Dune", 412), ["a", "b", "c"].join(", ")]

["Dune has 412 pages", "a, b, c"]

split, trim, replace_all, starts_with, contains and the rest are in the string module, visible in every program:

"  Frankenstein  ".trim().starts_with("Frank")

true

A String is Orderable, in the order of its characters, so a list of them sorts. Any value becomes text with str.