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\chapter{String Services}

The modules described in this chapter provide a wide range of string
manipulation operations.  Here's an overview:

\begin{description}

\item[string]
--- Common string operations.

\item[regex]
--- Regular expression search and match operations.

\item[regsub]
--- Substitution and splitting operations that use regular expressions.

\item[struct]
--- Interpret strings as packed binary data.

\item[StringIO]
--- Read and write strings as if they were files.

\end{description}