7.1. Getting the Length of a String7.2. Concatenating Strings7.3. Extracting Substrings7.4. Splitting a String According to a Delimiter7.5. Replacing Substrings7.6. Generating All Pairwise Combinations of Strings7.7. Getting the Current Date7.8. Converting a String into a Date7.9. Converting a Date into a String7.10. Converting Year, Month, and Day into a Date7.11. Getting the Julian Date7.12. Extracting the Parts of a Date7.13. Creating a Sequence of Dates