String array in Vala

[ChildishGiant]

I know this is incredibly basic but I can't seem to make an array of strings in Vala? The closest thing I can find on the docs is this code that seems to cast each character to an int.

uint8[] chars = "hello world".data;
chars.move (6, 0, 5);
print ((string) chars); // "world "

string[] gives me "expected identifier" This is what people mean when we say that the docs for vala could use some love 😅

[ChildishGiant]

Classic, as soon as I ask this I work it out.

string[] foo = {};
foo += "hello world";

In case you're wondering how I messed up something so basic, it's because I was trying to use var and string[] in one line