Time for an 2014 update…

Task/Copy-a-string/BASIC/copy-a-string-1.basic

@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+100 DEF  FN P(A) =  PEEK (A) +  PEEK(A + 1) * 256 : FOR I =  FN P(105) TO  FN P(107) - 1 STEP 7 : ON PEEK(I + 1) < 128 OR PEEK(I) > 127 GOTO 130 : ON LEFT$(P$, 1) <> CHR$(PEEK(I)) GOTO 130
+110 IF LEN(P$) > 1 THEN ON PEEK(I + 1) = 128 GOTO 130 : IF MID$(P$, 2, 1) <> CHR$(PEEK(I + 1) - 128) GOTO 130
+120 POKE I + 4, P / 256 : POKE I + 3, P - PEEK(I + 4) * 256 : RETURN
+130 NEXT I : STOP

Task/Copy-a-string/BASIC/copy-a-string-2.basic

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+S$ = "HELLO" : REM S$ IS THE ORIGINAL STRING
+C$ = S$ : REM C$ IS THE COPY

Task/Copy-a-string/BASIC/copy-a-string-3.basic

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+P$ = "S" : P = 53637 : GOSUB 100"POINT STRING S AT SOMETHING ELSE
+?S$
+?C$

Task/Copy-a-string/C++/copy-a-string.cpp

@@ -1,13 +1,10 @@
 #include <iostream>
 #include <string>
-#include <algorithm>
 
 int main( ) {
-   std::string original ( "This is the original" ) ;
-   std::string mycopy( original.length( ) , ' ' ) ;
-   std::copy ( original.begin( ) , original.end( ) , mycopy.begin( ) ) ;
-   std::cout << "This is the copy: " << mycopy << std::endl ;
-   original.assign( "Now we change the original! " ) ;
-   std::cout << "mycopy still is " << mycopy << std::endl ;
-   return 0 ;
+   std::string original ("This is the original");
+   std::string my_copy = original;
+   std::cout << "This is the copy: " << my_copy << std::endl;
+   original = "Now we change the original! ";
+   std::cout << "my_copy still is " << my_copy << std::endl;
 }

Task/Copy-a-string/Deja-Vu/copy-a-string.djv

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+local :orgininal "this is the original"
+local :scopy concat( original "" )
+!. scopy

Task/Copy-a-string/GML/copy-a-string.gml

@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
-src = "string"
-dest = src
+src = "string";
+dest = src;

Task/Copy-a-string/REXX/copy-a-string.rexx

@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 src = "this is a string"
+<br><br>Note that all REXX values (variables) are stored as character strings.
 dst = src