String Documentation Wiki Prototype

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Strings

Strings in Julia represent a finite sequence of characters. The default String type consists of immutable sequence of UTF-8 codeunits.

This is a wiki experiment in building a friendly crowd sourced supplementary documentation for strings in Julia.

Current Official String Documentation

• Manual Section on Strings, (Github link)
• Base String API, (Github link)

String literals

String construction

• String
• string

String manipulation

String concatenation

• *(str_a, str_b, ...) - concatenate strings together
• ^(str, n) - concatenate a repeated string together n times
• join([io::IO,] iterator [, delim [, last]]) - concatenate multiple strings together with a delimiter
• string(xs...) - convert arguments to strings use the print function and concatenate the results.

AbstractString Interface

Low-level string manipulation

String packages

• JuliaStrings Github Organization
• InlineStrings.jl - Fixed-width string types of certain lengths
• ShortStrings.jl - This is an efficient string format for storing strings using integer types
• StaticStrings.jl - Fixed-width string types of any length
• LaTeXStrings.jl - Type LaTeX equations in string literals.

[mkitti]

This is wiki post to organize and prototype documentation for strings in Julia. It is inspired by Timothy’s post on Slack about how documentation in other languages is easier to navigate.

I have created a “wiki post” that allows others to edit the original post to help add to the documentation. The beginning is supposed to be a short index of string functions. Additionally, I have enabled posts to votable so that additional discussion of strings can be added in reply.