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Lua supports a multiline form of declaring strings where you can start with the string with [[ and end it with ]]. This is analogous to Javascript literal notationdeclaring a multiline string.
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local ALongString=[[ This is a long multiple line string. ]] |
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-- A single line comment. --[[ A multiple line comment! ]] |
To find the length of a string we use the # operator:
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local Length = #ALongString |