Lua Strings
- Eliot Muir
Owned by Eliot Muir
This is a Lua string:
local AString = "This is a string"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 declaring a multiline string.
local ALongString=[[
This is
a long
multiple line string.
]]The same syntax can be used with comments:
-- A single line comment.
--[[
A multiple line
comment!
]]To find the length of a string we use the # operator:
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