STRING(2)                                               STRING(2)

     NAME
          string: append, drop, in, prefix, splitl, splitr, splitstrl,
          splitstrr, take, toint, tolower, toupper - string operations

     SYNOPSIS
          include "string.m";
          str := load String String->PATH;

          append:    fn(s: string, l: list of string): list of string;
          drop:      fn(s, cl: string): string;
          in:        fn(c: int, cl: string): int;
          prefix:    fn(pre, s: string): int;
          splitl:    fn(s, cl: string): (string, string);
          splitr:    fn(s, cl: string): (string, string);
          splitstrl: fn(s, t: string): (string, string);
          splitstrr: fn(s, t: string): (string, string);
          take:      fn(s, cl: string): string;
          toint:     fn(s: string, base: int): (int, string);
          tolower:   fn(s: string): string;
          toupper:   fn(s: string): string;
          quoted:    fn(args: list of string): string;
          unquoted:  fn(s: string): list of string;

     DESCRIPTION
          The cl argument to some of these functions is a character
          class in which a - between any two characters indicates a
          range and a ^ in the first position means not in the class.
          Example of classes are "a-zA-Z" and "^acg-mr".

          Append appends string s to the end of string list l.

          Drop removes the maximal prefix of string s that is in class
          cl.

          In returns 1 if character c is in class cl and 0 if it is
          not.

          Prefix returns 1 if string pre is a prefix of string s and 0
          if it is not.

          Splitl splits string s just before the first character in
          class cl.

          Splitr splits string s just after the last character in
          class cl.

          Splitstrl splits string s just before the leftmost segment
          of string s that consists entirely of string t, and returns
          a tuple with the resulting pair of strings.  If t does not
          occur in s, the result is (s,nil).

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          Splitstrr splits string s just after the rightmost segment
          of string s that consists entirely of string t, and returns
          a tuple with the resulting pair of strings.  If t does not
          occur in s, the result is (nil,s).

          Take returns the maximal prefix of string s that is in class
          cl.

          Toint returns as an integer the value represented by the
          string s. The string is scanned up to the first character
          inconsistent with base. The first inconsistent character
          marks the beginning of the returned string.  Leading white-
          space characters are ignored.  The base can be any integer
          in the range 0 to 36, inclusive.

          Tolower converts all upper case letters in the string s to
          lower case letters.

          Toupper converts all lower case letters in the string s to
          upper case letters.

          Quoted takes a list of strings, args, and returns a single
          string with the value of each element of args separated from
          the next by a single space.  When forming the string, the
          text of any element that contains white space or single
          quotes is first quoted by surrounding it by single quotes
          ('...')  within which each existing single quote is doubled
          (''), following the conventions of sh(1).

          Unquoted takes a string s, quoted according to the conven-
          tions of quoted, and splits it into separate strings.  It
          splits the string at each maximal sequence of unquoted white
          space (blank, newline or tab), stripping single quotes
          except where paired, to form the corresponding list of
          strings, which it returns.

     SOURCE
          /appl/lib/string.b

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