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Add documentation of SubString #23957

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Expand Up @@ -555,6 +555,23 @@ Some other useful functions include:
`i`.
* [`chr2ind(str,j)`](@ref) gives the index at which the `j`th character in `str` occurs.


It is possible to create a view into a string using the type `SubString`, for example:

```jldoctest
julia> str = "long string"
"long string"

julia> substr = SubString(str, 1, 4)
"long"

julia> typeof(substr)
SubString{String}
```

`SubString` works like [`getindex`](@ref), but it does not make a copy of the parent string. Several
standard functions like [`chop`](@ref), [`chomp`](@ref) or [`strip`](@ref) return a `SubString`.

## [Non-Standard String Literals](@id non-standard-string-literals)

There are situations when you want to construct a string or use string semantics, but the behavior
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