String Concatenation

You already know what strings are. They are pieces of paper with text on them.

So far, every string you've used is one that you've typed out directly.

What happens if you want to build a string based on variables or conditions? How do we do that?

There are two ways.

The first is called string concatenation, which is a posh and slightly confusing way of saying adding two strings together.

Imagine you have two words, "hello" and "world", and you want to create a string containing "hello world".

You could just write out "hello world" as one string, but you could also write "hello " + "world", and that would give you the same string.

Now, obviously, that's not all that useful in this scenario. But what if we had a variable with someone's name in and we wanted to say hello to them?

So imagine we have a variable called name, and it contains "Jeremy" sometimes and "Jiki" other times. We want to say "hello Jeremy" or "hello Jiki" using that variable.

Well, we can achieve this using this concatenation concept by writing "hello " + name, and that will give us either "hello Jeremy" or "hello Jiki" or hello anyone else, depending on what's inside the name box.

"hello " + name