GTK Programming with Strings

["Sam Fourman Jr." <sfourman gmail com>]

Hello,

I am New to GTK programming, could someone point me to a tutorial, or
tell me the library I would find basic string manipulation functions
in, my native language is C, and I was hoping that gtk would have some
Visual Basic like String Functions in it, and type conversions like
string to int and in to string.

Even if someone just knew the library's they are in gtk or glib?

Sam Fourman Jr.