\chapter{String Services}
\label{strings}

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[re]
--- New Perl-style regular expression search and match 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.

\item[soundex]
--- Compute hash values for English words.

\end{description}