What is this in Scripting?

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#1

Hi,
So I’m wondering what exactly this this in Scripting?

return [[ 
What is this???
]]

Just a Quick question tho,
thanks

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#2

Are you asking what return is?

#3

Sort of, im more of Refering to the Brackets [[]]

#4

Brackets, or braces, are a syntactic construct in many programming languages. They take the forms of “[]”, “()”, “{}” or “<>.” They are typically used to denote programming language constructs such as blocks, function calls or array subscripts.

Brackets are also known as braces.

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#5

Swift for example does {} for functions or loops

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#6

Thanks, I already know this, I’m just wondering what this piece of code does

#7

I haven’t programmed in months isn’t it the api return value?

#8

It returns a multi-line string.

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#10

Oh i see, so its similar to a Multi-Line Comment, Thanks!

--[[
Multi
Line 
Comment
--]]

print([[
Multi
Line
String
]])
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#11

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