Strings

Strings are an important component of scripting, as they are used to represent sequences of letters, numbers, and symbols.

Declaring a String

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!"

Combining Strings

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)