### String

Strings are used to hold text. The text must be placed between double quotation marks (") and cannot be split between lines. If you want to include double quotes in a string, use two consecutive double quotation marks.

    "This is a string."
    "123"
    "The word ""hello"" is quoted."

You can extract individual elements or substrings from a string by specifying the character position or a range of character positions. Negative values are allowed; they specify the position starting from the end of the string.

    "hello" (2) 'Equal to "e"
    "hello" (-5) 'Equal to "h"
    "604-555-1234" (1 to 3) 'Equal to "604"
    "abcdef" (-3 to -1) 'Equal to "def"

You can also extract substrings from a string using the Left, Right and Mid functions.

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