Merge pull request #14 from Aman-Godara/master

abstract for GSoC Project: Improving Strings Support in Fortran

Author: milancurcic

FortranCon2021-string/README.md

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+# FortranCon 2021: Improving Strings Support in Fortran (GSoC Project)
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+__Presenter__: [Aman Godara](https://aman-godara.github.io)
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+__Co-Authors__: [Sebastian Ehlert](https://github.com/awvwgk), [Milan Curcic](https://github.com/milancurcic)
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+__Session__: Fortran-lang Mini Symposium
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+__Abstract__:  
+To provide better support for strings, the Fortran Standard Library (*stdlib*) introduces `stdlib_string_type`, `stdlib_strings` and `stdlib_stringlist` module.
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+Since the start of the project, several string inquiry and manipulation procedures like *pad*, *find*, *replace_all*, etc have been added, adhering to the philosophy of unifying the community and providing simple and intuitive abstraction to the users.
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+Every type of usage from common ones like *reversing a string* to peculiar ones like *finding n-th non-overlapping substring* are developed in close collaboration with the community.
+Flexible high-level procedures like *slice* catering to every possible need while low-level APIs like *count* are optimized to readily build upon (as stand-alone or in combination with other provided APIs) to meet any specific requirement of a user.
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+All procedures work with deferred-length intrinsic character as smoothly as with *string_type*. This allows for a seamless integration of stdlib's string processing with the existing projects. Moreover, APIs being backward compatible will continue to serve old projects even with their latest versions.