F.2  String Manipulation Functions and Features

Sheerpower provides a large set of string functions and features. See String Manipulation Functions for details. All string functions are optimized for speed.

Strings as buffers Strings can also be used store data into fixed length buffers. Over 30 million string overlays can be processed per second.
For example:

mybuf$ = space$(1024)
subtext$ = 'abcde'
start_pos = 1
for idx = 1 to 10
  start_pos = overlay(mybuf$, subtext$, start_pos)
next idx

The code below contains an example of each of the major string functions.