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2.8.2 Rationale

This SRFI defines a rich set of operations for manipulating strings; these are frequently useful for scripting and other text–manipulation applications. The library’s design was influenced by the string libraries found in MIT Scheme, Gambit, RScheme, MzScheme, slib, Common Lisp, Bigloo, guile, Chez, APL, Java, and the SML standard basis.

All procedures involving character comparison are available in both case–sensitive and case–insensitive forms.

All functionality is available in substring and full–string forms.