In JavaScript, you can concatenate (join) two or more strings together using the plus operator (+
). Here’s an example:
let greeting = 'Hello'; let name = 'John'; let message = greeting + ' ' + name + '!'; console.log(message); // Output: "Hello John!"
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In this example, the greeting
and name
variables are both strings. We use the plus operator to concatenate them together into a single string, which is stored in the message
variable.
You can also use the plus operator to concatenate strings with other types of data. For example:
let age = 30; let job = 'developer'; let info = 'I am ' + age + ' years old and I am a ' + job + '.'; console.log(info); // Output: "I am 30 years old and I am a developer."
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In this example, we use the plus operator to concatenate a string with the age
variable (which is a number) and another string with the job
variable (which is also a string).
Keep in mind that the plus operator is also used for addition in JavaScript, so be careful when using it. If you want to concatenate a number with a string, you will need to convert the number to a string first using the String()
function.
Here are a few more examples of using the plus operator to concatenate strings in JavaScript:
let str1 = 'Hello'; let str2 = 'world'; let str3 = '!'; let greeting = str1 + ' ' + str2 + str3; console.log(greeting); // Output: "Hello world!"
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In this example, we concatenate three strings (str1
, str2
, and str3
) into a single greeting message.
You can also use the plus operator to concatenate strings with other types of data, like booleans and objects:
let flag = true; let obj = { name: 'John' }; let str = 'The value of flag is ' + flag + ' and obj is ' + obj; console.log(str); // Output: "The value of flag is true and obj is [object Object]"
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Here, we use the plus operator to concatenate a string with a boolean value (flag
) and another string with an object (obj
). The obj
object is automatically converted to a string representation ("[object Object]"
) when it is concatenated with the other strings.