-- String creation and destruction
foo = "Hello world!" -- created by assignment; destruction via garbage collection

-- Strings are binary safe
put numtochar(0) into char 6 of foo
put chartonum(foo.char[6])
-- 0
put str.char[7..foo.length]
-- "world!"

-- String cloning and copying
bar = foo -- copies foo contents to bar

-- String comparison
put (foo=bar) -- TRUE
put (foo<>bar) -- FALSE

-- Check if a string is empty
put (foo=EMPTY)
put (foo="")
put (foo.length=0)

-- Append a byte to a string
put "X" after foo
put chartonum(88) after foo

-- Extract a substring from a string
put foo.char[3..5]

-- Replace every occurrence of a byte (or a string) in a string with another string

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-- Replace in string
-- @param {string} stringToFind
-- @param {string} stringToInsert
-- @param {string} input
-- @return {string}
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on replaceAll (stringToFind, stringToInsert, input)
    output = ""
    findLen = stringToFind.length - 1
    repeat while TRUE
        currOffset = offset(stringToFind, input)
        if currOffset=0 then exit repeat
        put input.char[1..currOffset] after output
        delete the last char of output
        put stringToInsert after output
        delete input.char[1..(currOffset + findLen)]
    end repeat
    put input after output
    return output
end

put replaceAll("o", "X", foo)

-- Join strings (4x the same result)
foo = "Hello " & "world!"
foo = "Hello" & numtochar(32) & "world!"
foo = "Hello" & SPACE & "world!"
foo = "Hello" && "world!"