Chapter 18. A collection of standard string functions

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strlen - Returns the length of a string.
substr - Returns a substring.
stringat - Returns the char at a given position in the string.
isinstr - Returns whether a string is a substring of another string.
text_str - Escape any non-printable chars in a string.
text_strn - Escape any non-printable chars in a string.
tokenize - Return the next non-empty token in a string.
str_replace - str_replace Replaces all instances of a substring with another.
strtol - strtol - Convert a string to a long.

Functions to get the length, a substring, getting at individual characters, string seaching, escaping, tokenizing, and converting strings to longs.