`str`

16 functions. Each has a page of its own.

Function	Summary
`str.contains`	Tests whether one string occurs inside another.
`str.endswith`	Asks whether a string finishes with a given ending.
`str.format_time`	Renders a time value as text.
`str.length`	Gives the length of a string as an int.
`str.lower`	Converts a string to lower case.
`str.match`	Returns the first part of `source` that matches the regular expression `pattern`.
`str.pos`	Reports the position at which one string sits inside another.
`str.repeat`	Produces a string made of repeated copies of another, with the option of something between the copies.
`str.replace`	Substitutes one piece of text for another inside a string.
`str.replace_all`	Substitutes new text for every occurrence of the old text.
`str.startswith`	The counterpart of str.endswith, looking at the front of the string instead of the back.
`str.substring`	Cuts a piece out of a string. There are two forms: one takes a start and an end, the other takes a start alone.
`str.tonumber`	Reads a number out of a string.
`str.tostring`	Renders a value as a string. One overload takes a number and one takes a bool.
`str.trim`	Removes whitespace from around a string and hands back the result.
`str.upper`	Converts a string to upper case; the other half of the pair with str.lower.

Part of the function index.

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