Primitive type: character string

A string is just a piece of text.

--File syntax--
In files, strings are written just as their value:
> string: this is some string
The whitespace at the beginning is removed by the program.
Multiline strings are written on a new line, indented by a TAB:
> string:
>	This is a very long string
>	It contains a line break.

--Script syntax--
In scripts, strings are written between double quotes, @"this is a string"@.
The backslash character is used to escape values:
! Code	Represents
| @\"@	A " character
| @\{@	A { character
| @\n@	A newline character (line break)
| @\\@	A backslash
| @\<@	An escaped &lt; for [[type:tagged string]]s.

Sections between curly braces are interpreted as script code, that is concatentated with the string, for example
> "ab{1 + 1}c" == "ab2c"
This can be nested arbitrarily.

The @+@ operator concatenates strings. Numbers and most other values are automatically converted to strings when needed.

Using the @[]@ or @.@ operator characters in a string can be selected. 0 is the first character:
> "xyz"[0]  ==  "x"
> "xyz".0   ==  "x"  # same thing
It is an error to select characters outside the string
> "xyz".10  # error