A large number of mobile applications require us to deal with text in various formats. For example, we might need to read and evaluate user input to ensure that they entered a valid e-mail address, or we might use user text for searching other text. LiveCode provides a tremendous ability for us to work with text. In this chapter, you will learn how to accomplish tasks related to working with text. You will learn how to read user input and how to replace, combine, and encrypt text. You will also learn how to write, read, sort, format, and append text. Lastly, you will learn how to translate text into Pig Latin.