How can you copy (clone) a string?

[Greg Ewing]

piet at cs.uu.nl wrote:
> 
> That will not help, as the strings will be garbage collected.

Well, keep them in a list or something. If the
strings are fairly big, the extra memory taken
up by the list won't make much difference.

Or chain them into a linked list using tuples.

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