Strings

Strings are written with single or double quotes:

a = 'hello'
b = "world"
println(a .. ' ' .. b)

Escape sequences

Any other backslash sequence is kept as written. Because \t and \n are escapes, write Windows paths with forward slashes or doubled backslashes ('C:\\temp').

println('it\'s')
println("say \"hi\"\nbye")

Joining

.. joins values. Integers are printed as-is and floats with six decimals:

println('total: ' .. 2.5)   # total: 2.500000

String manipulation

The standard library has strlen, substr, strfind, strcase, trim and the conversions str2int, int2str, str2float, float2str. See Standard Library.

Comparing

==, < and friends compare two strings character by character. Comparing a string to a number treats the string as 0.