Dart: Scalable Application Development

Concatenating strings

Concatenation can be done in a variety of ways in Dart (refer to the concat_trim_strings file, and download it from www.packtpub.com/support).

How to do it...

Strings can be concatenated as follows:

  String s1 = "Dart", s2 = "Cook", s3 = "Book";
  var res = "Dart" " Cook" "Book";        (1)
  res = "Dart"  " Cook"
              "Book";        (2)
  res = s1 + " " + s2 + s3;        (3)
  res = "$s1 $s2$s3";        (4)
  res = [s1, " ", s2, s3].join();        (5)

  var sb = new StringBuffer();        (6)
  sb.writeAll([s1, " ", s2, s3]);
  res = sb.toString();
  print(res); // Dart CookBook

How it works...

Adjacent string literals are taken together as one string as shown in line (1), even if they are on different lines as shown in line (2). The + operator does the same thing (3), as well as string interpolation ...