String Creation

Strings are pretty simple to create — you just assign a sequence of text characters to a variable.

> str = "Sample String"
Sample String

The show command reveals the attributes associated with each string. The information can also be obtained using the normal shorthand method.

> show ( str )
   name:      str     
   class:     string  
    type:             
     nr:      1   
     nc:      1       
> str.class
string
> str.l
          13

You can also put escape characters in strings. The following escape codes are supported:

\n which produces a newline
\t which produces a horizontal tab
\f which produces a form feed
\b which produces a backspace
\r which produces a carriage return
\a which produces an alert (bell)
\v which produces a vertical tab
\\ which produces a backslash
\' which produces a single quote
\" which produces a double quote