I need help on cancatonating

kingpen_notch · December 30, 2020, 2:07pm

Im not sure if I’m saying it right but what i mean is what those two dots i keep seeing when people are printing.
Do?

Blockzez · December 30, 2020, 2:10pm

You need to be more specific, what do you need help with?
What does do and mean? even mean?
The .. operator on two strings is for concatenation which join two strings together.

kingpen_notch · December 30, 2020, 2:11pm

Could you show me an example?
Next Time i shall be more clear with my wording but what i mean is what are they used for?

noxiirity · December 30, 2020, 2:13pm

print("The answer to 5+5 is ".. 5+5 .." !")

Your output would be 10.

That’s concatination. ^

kingpen_notch · December 30, 2020, 2:14pm

Thats much more clear now. So is cancatonating a way of doing two actions at once in a string?

noxiirity · December 30, 2020, 2:15pm

Kinda!

Basically it’s to add a value to a string.

kingpen_notch · December 30, 2020, 2:16pm

Thanks!!! this really helps as i was very confused.

noxiirity · December 30, 2020, 2:16pm

You could also do something like

local word = "hello"

print(word.." world!")

kingpen_notch · December 30, 2020, 2:17pm

I completely understand now THANKS!!!

noxiirity · December 30, 2020, 2:17pm

You’re more than welcome.

If you need anymore help feel free to ask.