Strings

String literals are delimited by either single quotes (') or double quotes ("). Both forms are identical in behaviour.

"hello"
'world'
"It's a string"
'She said "hi"'

Escape Sequences

The following escape sequences are recognised within string literals:

Sequence	Meaning
\n	Newline
\r	Carriage return
\t	Tab
\\	Backslash
\"	Double quote
\'	Single quote
\0	Null character
\uXXXX	Unicode code point (4 hex digits)

No String Interpolation

Jyro does not support string interpolation. Use the + operator for concatenation:

var greeting = "Hello, " + name     # Correct
# var greeting = "Hello, ${name}"   # INCORRECT - not supported

When either operand of + is a string, the other operand is automatically converted to its string representation.

Regex Pattern Escaping

Jyro’s string escape processing consumes backslash sequences before the string reaches a regex function. This means \d, \w, and \s are not valid regex shortcuts in Jyro strings. Use character classes instead:

Instead of	Use
\d	[0-9]
\w	[a-zA-Z0-9_]
\s	[ \t\n\r]
\.	[.]

# INCORRECT - \d is consumed by string escaping
var num = RegexMatch(text, "\d+")

# CORRECT - character class reaches the regex engine intact
var num = RegexMatch(text, "[0-9]+")