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## Module (chicken string)

This module contains procedures which can perform various useful string operations.

### conc

conc X ...procedure

  Returns a string with the string-represenation of all arguments concatenated together. `conc` could be implemented as

      (define (conc . args)
        (apply string-append (map ->string args)) )

### ->string

->string Xprocedure

  Returns a string-representation of X.

### string-chop

string-chop STRING LENGTHprocedure

  Returns a list of substrings taken by chopping STRING every LENGTH characters:

      (string-chop "one two three" 4)  ==>  ("one " "two " "thre" "e")

### string-chomp

string-chomp STRING #!optional SUFFIXprocedure

  If STRING ends with SUFFIX, then this procedure returns a copy of its first argument with the suffix removed, otherwise returns STRING unchanged. SUFFIX defaults to `"\n"`.

### string-compare3

string-compare3 STRING1 STRING2procedure
string-compare3-ci STRING1 STRING2procedure

  Perform a three-way comparison between the STRING1 and STRING2, returning either `-1` if STRING1 is lexicographically less than STRING2, `0` if it is equal, or `1` if it s greater. `string-compare3-ci` performs a case-insensitive comparison.

### string-intersperse

string-intersperse LIST #!optional STRINGprocedure

  Returns a string that contains all strings in LIST concatenated together. STRING is placed between each concatenated string and defaults to `" "`.

      (string-intersperse '("one" "two") "three")

  is equivalent to

      (apply string-append (intersperse '("one" "two") "three"))

### string-split

string-split STRING #!optional DELIMITER-STRING KEEPEMPTYprocedure

  Split string into substrings delimited by any of the characters given in the delimiter string. If no delimiters are specified, a string comprising the tab, newline and space characters is assumed. If the parameter KEEPEMPTY is given and not `#f`, then empty substrings are retained:

      (string-split "one  two  three") ==> ("one" "two" "three")
      (string-split "foo:bar::baz:" ":" #t) ==> ("foo" "bar" "" "baz" "")
      (string-split "foo:bar:baz,quux,zot" ":," ) ==> ("foo" "bar" "baz" "quux" "zot")

### string-translate

string-translate STRING FROM #!optional TOprocedure

  Returns a fresh copy of STRING with characters matching FROM translated to TO. If TO is omitted, then matching characters are removed. FROM and TO may be a character, a string or a list. If both FROM and TO are strings, then the character at the same position in TO as the matching character in FROM is substituted.

### string-translate*

string-translate* STRING SMAPprocedure

  Substitutes elements of STRING according to SMAP. SMAP should be an association-list where each element of the list is a pair of the form `(MATCH . REPLACEMENT)`. Every occurrence of the string `MATCH` in STRING will be replaced by the string `REPLACEMENT`:

      (string-translate*
        "<h1>this is a \"string\"</h1>"
        '(("<" . "&lt;") (">" . "&gt;") ("\"" . "&quot;")) )
      =>  "&lt;h1&gt;this is a &quot;string&quot;&lt;/h1&gt;"

### substring=?

substring=? STRING1 STRING2 #!optional START1 START2 LENGTHprocedure
substring-ci=? STRING1 STRING2 #!optional START1 START2 LENGTHprocedure

  Returns `#t` if the strings STRING1 and STRING2 are equal, or `#f` otherwise. The comparison starts at the positions START1 and START2 (which default to 0), comparing LENGTH characters (which defaults to the minimum of the remaining length of both strings).

### substring-index

substring-index MAYBE-SUBSTRING STRING #!optional STARTprocedure
substring-index-ci MAYBE-SUBSTRING STRING #!optional STARTprocedure

  Searches for first index in string STRING where string MAYBE-SUBSTRING occurs. If the optional argument START is given, then the search starts at that index. `substring-index-ci` is a case-insensitive version of `substring-index`.

### reverse-list->string

reverse-list->string LISTprocedure

  Returns a string with the characters in LIST in reverse order. This is equivalent to `(list->string (reverse LIST))`, but much more efficient.

### reverse-string-append

reverse-string-append LISTprocedure

  `(apply string-append (reverse LIST))`

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