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Started by tfoote, 05 July 2012 - 10:41 PM

tfoote #1

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Posted 06 July 2012 - 12:41 AM

I keep seeing code with something like


print(id .."blah".. blah)

Can somebody please explain the ".." DOTS!?!?!

MysticT #2

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Posted 06 July 2012 - 01:05 AM

It's the concatenation operator, read more on the lua manual.
It's not really needed in print statements, but it's useful in other situations.