Lua Quick Start Guide

Concatenate strings

Two strings can be concatenated by placing a .. symbol between them. It is very important to have at least one space on both the left and right of the .. symbol. Concatenating two strings results in a new string, which can be stored in a variable or used in its place. Any combination of variables and literals can be concatenated, as the following code demonstrates:

name = "Mike"color = "Blue"-- Concatenate three stringsprint ("Jill " .. "likes" .. " Red")-- Concatenate a variable and a stringsprint ("Jack dislikes " .. color)-- Concatenate two variables and a stringprint (name .. " likes " .. color)-- Concatenate only variablesprint (name .. color)-- Assign result to variablemessage = name .. " likes " .. colorprint (message) ...