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 This chapter presents my work on designing and building a modern string type in \CFA.
 The discussion starts with examples of interesting string problems, followed by examples of how these issues are solved in my design.
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+\section{String Comparison}
+
+To prepare for the following discussion, a simple comparison among C, \CC, and \CFA basic string operation is presented.
+\begin{cquote}
+\begin{tabular}{@{}l|l|l@{}}
+C @char [ ]@			&  \CC @string@		& \CFA @string@	\\
+\hline
+@strcpy@, @strncpy@		& @=@				& @=@	\\
+@strcat@, @strncat@		& @+@				& @+@	\\
+@strcmp@, @strncmp@		& @==@, @!=@, @<@, @<=@, @>@, @>=@ & @==@, @!=@, @<@, @<=@, @>@, @>=@ \\
+@strlen@				& @length@			 & @size@ 	\\
+@[ ]@					& @[ ]@				 & @[ ]@	\\
+						& @substr@			 & @substr@	\\
+						& @replace@			 & \\
+@strstr@				& @find@, @rfind@	 & \\
+@strcspn@				& @find_first_of@, @find_last_of@ & \\
+@strspn@				& @find_first_not_of@, @find_last_not_of@ & \\
+						& @c_str@			 & \\
+\end{tabular}
+\end{cquote}
+Some more discussion ...