# Strings

These functions can be used to work with Strings:

& | to catenate strings

InStr() | to get the position of a substring

left() | to extract a substring from the left

like | to compare two strings, or substrings

LTrim() | to strip whitespaces from the beginning of a string

mid() | to extract a substring

right() | to extract a substring from the right

RTrim() | to strip whitespaces from the end of a string

split() | to divide a string into single words

Trim() | to strip whitespaces from the beginning and the end of a string

CStr() | to convert an expression into a string

Str() | to convert an expression into a string (this is the opposit of val())

val() | to convert a string into an integer, a float or whatever, depending on the form of the string