What's the difference in the usage of .. and %s?

[AridFights1 (Arid)]

Title explains it all. But I want to know about the difference between .. and %s.

print("My name is" .. player.Name) -- AridFights1
print(("My name is %s"):format(player.Name)) -- AridFights1

I want to know which one of them works better, and if they have a difference or not. Thanks!

• Arid

[dthecoolest]

Why should you use string.format as much as possible rather than concatenation?

In terms of performance, the difference is negligible and it can be considered a microoptimisation. string.format is typically preferable over concatenation because of the way it looks in your code (much cleaner). string.format is also free of data type binding, while for concatenation you need to do type casting. local ERROR_STRING = "bad %s to %d" print(string.format(ERROR_STRING, "argument", 2)) --> "bad argument to method" -- vs. local ERROR_TYPE = "argument" local ERROR_CODE = 2 print("b…

[AridFights1 (Arid)]

Thanks for the help! Looks like I didn’t look deeper enough!