PBP does support strings. Have you looked at the STR modifiers for LCDOUT, SERIN2,
SEROUT2, DEBUG, DEBUGIN, OWIN, OWOUT, etc? That's definitely string support...;o}

What exactly do you need string support for that it doesn't have? Just loading values
into an array?

P.S. Swordfish is an excellent compiler if you only need to work with 18F series, but it's
a far cry from being as simple to use as PBP.