# AnyLang Programming Language Comparison/Appendix:PLEAC Crossref:Strings
## Strings
### Introduction

| ada | c++ | commonlisp | cposix | erlang | factor | forth |
| groovy | guile | haskell | haskell-on-steroids | java | masd | merd |
| nasm | ocaml | perl | php | pike | pliant | python |
| R | rexx | ruby | smalltalk | tcl | | |

### Accessing Substrings

| ada | c++ | commonlisp | cposix | erlang | factor | forth |
| groovy | guile | haskell | haskell-on-steroids | java | masd | merd |
| nasm | ocaml | perl | php | pike | pliant | python |
| R | rexx | ruby | smalltalk | tcl | | |

### Establishing a Default Value

| ada | c++ | commonlisp | cposix | erlang | factor | forth |
| groovy | guile | haskell | haskell-on-steroids | java | masd | merd |
| nasm | ocaml | perl | php | pike | pliant | python |
| R | rexx | ruby | smalltalk | tcl | | |

### Exchanging Values Without Using Temporary Variables

| ada | c++ | commonlisp | cposix | erlang | factor | forth |
| groovy | guile | haskell | haskell-on-steroids | java | masd | merd |
| nasm | ocaml | perl | php | pike | pliant | python |
| R | rexx | ruby | smalltalk | tcl | | |

### Converting Between ASCII Characters and Values

| ada | c++ | commonlisp | cposix | erlang | factor | forth |
| groovy | guile | haskell | haskell-on-steroids | java | masd | merd |
| nasm | ocaml | perl | php | pike | pliant | python |
| R | rexx | ruby | smalltalk | tcl | | |

### Processing a String One Character at a Time

| ada | c++ | commonlisp | cposix | erlang | factor | forth |
| groovy | guile | haskell | haskell-on-steroids | java | masd | merd |
| nasm | ocaml | perl | php | pike | pliant | python |
| R | rexx | ruby | smalltalk | tcl | | |

### Reversing a String by Word or Character

| ada | c++ | commonlisp | cposix | erlang | factor | forth |
| groovy | guile | haskell | haskell-on-steroids | java | masd | merd |
| nasm | ocaml | perl | php | pike | pliant | python |
| R | rexx | ruby | smalltalk | tcl | | |

### Expanding and Compressing Tabs

| ada | c++ | commonlisp | cposix | erlang | factor | forth |
| groovy | guile | haskell | haskell-on-steroids | java | masd | merd |
| nasm | ocaml | perl | php | pike | pliant | python |
| R | rexx | ruby | smalltalk | tcl | | |

### Expanding Variables in User Input

| ada | c++ | commonlisp | cposix | erlang | factor | forth |
| groovy | guile | haskell | haskell-on-steroids | java | masd | merd |
| nasm | ocaml | perl | php | pike | pliant | python |
| R | rexx | ruby | smalltalk | tcl | | |

### Controlling Case

| ada | c++ | commonlisp | cposix | erlang | factor | forth |
| groovy | guile | haskell | haskell-on-steroids | java | masd | merd |
| nasm | ocaml | perl | php | pike | pliant | python |
| R | rexx | ruby | smalltalk | tcl | | |

### Interpolating Functions and Expressions Within Strings

| ada | c++ | commonlisp | cposix | erlang | factor | forth |
| groovy | guile | haskell | haskell-on-steroids | java | masd | merd |
| nasm | ocaml | perl | php | pike | pliant | python |
| R | rexx | ruby | smalltalk | tcl | | |

### Indenting Here Documents

| ada | c++ | commonlisp | cposix | erlang | factor | forth |
| groovy | guile | haskell | haskell-on-steroids | java | masd | merd |
| nasm | ocaml | perl | php | pike | pliant | python |
| R | rexx | ruby | smalltalk | tcl | | |

### Reformatting Paragraphs

| ada | c++ | commonlisp | cposix | erlang | factor | forth |
| groovy | guile | haskell | haskell-on-steroids | java | masd | merd |
| nasm | ocaml | perl | php | pike | pliant | python |
| R | rexx | ruby | smalltalk | tcl | | |

### Escaping Characters

| ada | c++ | commonlisp | cposix | erlang | factor | forth |
| groovy | guile | haskell | haskell-on-steroids | java | masd | merd |
| nasm | ocaml | perl | php | pike | pliant | python |
| R | rexx | ruby | smalltalk | tcl | | |

### Trimming Blanks from the Ends of a String

| ada | c++ | commonlisp | cposix | erlang | factor | forth |
| groovy | guile | haskell | haskell-on-steroids | java | masd | merd |
| nasm | ocaml | perl | php | pike | pliant | python |
| R | rexx | ruby | smalltalk | tcl | | |

### Parsing Comma-Separated Data

| ada | c++ | commonlisp | cposix | erlang | factor | forth |
| groovy | guile | haskell | haskell-on-steroids | java | masd | merd |
| nasm | ocaml | perl | php | pike | pliant | python |
| R | rexx | ruby | smalltalk | tcl | | |

### Soundex Matching

| ada | c++ | commonlisp | cposix | erlang | factor | forth |
| groovy | guile | haskell | haskell-on-steroids | java | masd | merd |
| nasm | ocaml | perl | php | pike | pliant | python |
| R | rexx | ruby | smalltalk | tcl | | |

### Program: fixstyle

| ada | c++ | commonlisp | cposix | erlang | factor | forth |
| groovy | guile | haskell | haskell-on-steroids | java | masd | merd |
| nasm | ocaml | perl | php | pike | pliant | python |
| R | rexx | ruby | smalltalk | tcl | | |

### Program: psgrep

| ada | c++ | commonlisp | cposix | erlang | factor | forth |
| groovy | guile | haskell | haskell-on-steroids | java | masd | merd |
| nasm | ocaml | perl | php | pike | pliant | python |
| R | rexx | ruby | smalltalk | tcl | | |