The Book of JavaScript, 2nd Edition

Strings

Any series of characters between quotes is called a string. (You'll be seeing lots of strings throughout this book.) Strings are a basic type of information, like numbers—and like numbers, you can assign them to variables.

To assign a string to a variable, you'd write something like this:

var my_name = "thau!";

The word thau! is the string assigned to the variable my_name.

You can stick strings together with a plus sign (+), as shown in the bolded section of Figure 2-6. This code demonstrates how to write output to your page using strings.

Figure 2-6. Putting strings together

Line-by-Line Analysis of Figure 2-6

Line ❶ in Figure 2-6,

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