## Usage
```javascript
var string = require( '@stdlib/string' );
```
#### string
Standard library string manipulation functions.
```javascript
var str = string;
// returns {...}
```
The namespace exposes the following string manipulation functions:
- [`capitalize( str )`][@stdlib/string/capitalize]: capitalize the first character in a string.
- [`endsWith( str, search[, len] )`][@stdlib/string/ends-with]: test if a string ends with the characters of another string.
- [`fromCodePoint( pt1[, pt2[, pt3[, ...]]] )`][@stdlib/string/from-code-point]: create a string from a sequence of Unicode code points.
- [`lpad( str, len[, pad] )`][@stdlib/string/left-pad]: left pad a string.
- [`ltrim( str )`][@stdlib/string/left-trim]: trim whitespace characters from the beginning of a string.
- [`lowercase( str )`][@stdlib/string/lowercase]: convert a string to lowercase.
- [`pad( str, len[, options] )`][@stdlib/string/pad]: pad a string.
- [`percentEncode( str )`][@stdlib/string/percent-encode]: percent-encode a UTF-16 encoded string according to RFC 3986.
- [`removeFirst( str )`][@stdlib/string/remove-first]: remove the first character of a string.
- [`removeLast( str )`][@stdlib/string/remove-last]: remove the last character of a string.
- [`removePunctuation( str )`][@stdlib/string/remove-punctuation]: remove punctuation characters from a string.
- [`removeUTF8BOM( str )`][@stdlib/string/remove-utf8-bom]: remove a UTF-8 byte order mark (BOM) from the beginning of a string.
- [`removeWords( str, words[, ignoreCase] )`][@stdlib/string/remove-words]: remove a list of words from a string.
- [`repeat( str, n )`][@stdlib/string/repeat]: repeat a string a specified number of times and return the concatenated result.
- [`replace( str, search, newval )`][@stdlib/string/replace]: replace search occurrences with a replacement string.
- [`reverseString( str )`][@stdlib/string/reverse]: reverse a string.
- [`rpad( str, len[, pad] )`][@stdlib/string/right-pad]: right pad a string.
- [`rtrim( str )`][@stdlib/string/right-trim]: trim whitespace characters from the end of a string.
- [`startcase( str )`][@stdlib/string/startcase]: capitalize the first letter of each word in a string.
- [`startsWith( str, search[, position] )`][@stdlib/string/starts-with]: test if a string starts with the characters of another string.
- [`trim( str )`][@stdlib/string/trim]: trim whitespace characters from the beginning and end of a string.
- [`uncapitalize( str )`][@stdlib/string/uncapitalize]: uncapitalize the first character of a string.
- [`uppercase( str )`][@stdlib/string/uppercase]: convert a string to uppercase.
- [`utf16ToUTF8Array( str )`][@stdlib/string/utf16-to-utf8-array]: convert a UTF-16 encoded string to an array of integers using UTF-8 encoding.