Programming in Lua : 3.4

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Programming in Lua

Part I. The Language Chapter 3. Expressions

3.4 – Concatenation

Lua denotes the string concatenation operator by ".." (two dots). If any of its operands is a number, Lua converts that number to a string.

    print("Hello " .. "World")  --> Hello World
    print(0 .. 1)               --> 01

Remember that strings in Lua are immutable values. The concatenation operator always creates a new string, without any modification to its operands:

    a = "Hello"
    print(a .. " World")   --> Hello World
    print(a)               --> Hello