Strings

Strings are built in. They know their own length, so there's no \0 at the end and no buffer to overflow. Text is stored as UTF-8.

Putting values in text

Anything inside { } is worked out and put into the string:

name := "noa"
hp := 70
print("{name} has {hp} hp, {100 - hp} lost")

noa has 70 hp, 30 lost

Write {{ and }} for the braces themselves:

print("{{like this}}")

{like this}

Escapes

A raw string, r"...", keeps everything as typed, with no escapes and no { }:

print(r"C:\games\{save}")

C:\games\{save}

A string ends on the line it starts.

Joining and comparing

greeting := "hi " + "there"
greeting += "!"
print(greeting)
print(greeting == "hi there!", greeting != "hi")

hi there!
true true

A string and a number can't be added. Put the number inside the string instead: "score: {score}".

Length

.len counts letters, not bytes:

print("shalom".len, "שלום".len)

6 4

Copies

Every string variable has its own copy of the text:

a := "copy"
b := a
a += "!"
print(a, b)

copy! copy

Turning a value into a string

n := 42
s := string(n)
print(s + "!", "{n}" == s)

42! true

Methods like split, trim, contains and upper are planned for the next version.