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 Strings are surrounded by single quotes and they're immutable. For example `'Hello world'`.
 
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 'hello world' 0 5 substr \ gets the characters from 0 to 5 (exclusive)
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 'hello world' 1 at \ gets the first character (as a string)
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 'hello' upper \ gets the upper case version of hello
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 'HELLO' lower \ gets the lower case version of hello
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 '  xx  ' trim \ removes the leading and trailing spaces from the string 
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 'abcd' 'bc' index-of \ finds the substring and returns its index, or -1 if not found
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 'abcxxdepkcxxk' 'xx' 'yyy' replace \ replace all occurances of 'xx' to 'yyy (the substring is a regexp)
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 'af' '123' concat \ concatenates two strings
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 'hello world' ' ' split \ splits the strings into parts by the separator string
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 123 >str \ conversts the number into a string
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 "[ 1 'xx' ] 'a=%d b=%s' format" \ creates a string using the given format by substituting the parts in place of the format characters. 
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 'ab' 3 * \ copies the string n times
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