; creation
x: "this is a string"
y: "this is another string"
z: "this is a string"

; comparison
if x = z -> print "x is z"

; assignment
z: "now this is another string too"

; copying reference
y: z

; copying value
y: new z

; check if empty
if? empty? x -> print "empty"
else         -> print "not empty"

; append a string
'x ++ "!"

print x

; substrings
print slice x 5 8

; join strings
z: x ++ y
print z

; replace occurrences of substring
print replace z "t" "T"