Strings are an important component of scripting, as they are used to represent sequences of letters, numbers, and symbols.
The most common method of declaring strings is to put double quotes ("
) around the characters. The following declaration will cause the variable str
to contain the string Hello world!
:
local str = "Hello world!"
Strings can be combined through a method called concatenation. The Lua concatenation syntax is two dots (..
) between the strings, for instance:
local str = "Your high score is "
local highScore = 5200
local combinedString = str .. highScore
print(str)
print(combinedString)