What is the purpose of strings?

I’m pretty new to programming. If anyone can explain what strings do and what’s the purpose of them, I’ll appreciate it.

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Hello, strings are a type of data. Generally in programming languages you’ll see them look like this:

"Hello, world!"

With quotes or double quotes surrounding them.

Strings are just text. You can use that text and print it out in Lua like:

print("Hello, world")

The purpose of strings is a way to represent characters, numbers, and other symbols as a strings data type.

If you need anymore info:

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A string is a piece of text or information. A string may look like “Hello, world!”. Strings can consist of numbers, letters, characters, etc. Basically just plain text.

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Thanks both of you for the info. @Den_vers @ballerawesomeg_dog

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