644	 A String Language for Symbol Manipulation Based on ALGOL	 An artificial computer programming language is proposed for describing the manipulation of strings of characters and symbols. The concept of strings introduced in the ALGOL report is extended by adding the declaration of strings substrings and string arrays with explicit lengths the ability to concatenate and shift strings and the ranking of symbols for comparing stings in Boolean relations. A primer or informal description of the language is followed by examples a description of experiments with the language on an IBM computer and a formal description which taken with the ALGOL Report defines the proposed string language.
