-XBT_PUBLIC(char*) rtrim(char* s, const char* char_list);
-XBT_PUBLIC(char*) ltrim( char* s, const char* char_list);
-XBT_PUBLIC(char*) trim(char* s, const char* char_list);
+XBT_PUBLIC(void) xbt_str_rtrim(char* s, const char* char_list);
+XBT_PUBLIC(void) xbt_str_ltrim( char* s, const char* char_list);
+XBT_PUBLIC(void) xbt_str_trim(char* s, const char* char_list);
+
+XBT_PUBLIC(xbt_dynar_t) xbt_str_split(const char *s, const char *sep);
+XBT_PUBLIC(xbt_dynar_t) xbt_str_split_quoted(const char *s);
+XBT_PUBLIC(xbt_dynar_t) xbt_str_split_str(const char *s, const char *sep);
+
+XBT_PUBLIC(char *) xbt_str_join(xbt_dynar_t dynar, const char *sep);
+
+/* */
+XBT_PUBLIC(void) xbt_str_subst(char *str, char from, char to, int amount);
+XBT_PUBLIC(char *)xbt_str_varsubst(char *str, xbt_dict_t patterns);
+
+/* */
+XBT_PUBLIC(void) xbt_str_strip_spaces(char *);
+XBT_PUBLIC(char *) xbt_str_diff(char *a, char *b);
+
+/** @brief Classical alias to (char*)
+ *
+ * This of almost no use, beside cosmetics and the GRAS parsing macro (see \ref GRAS_dd_auto).
+ */
+typedef char *xbt_string_t;
+
+/**@}*/