Strings store text, concatenate with .., and report length with #.

Strings

strings.lua
local language = 
local message = "Hello, " .. language
local length = #message

print(message)
print("length=" .. length)
local language = 
local message = "Hello, " .. language
local length = #message

print(message)
print("length=" .. length)
local language = 
local message = "Hello, " .. language
local length = #message

print(message)
print("length=" .. length)
string length The `#` operator returns the length of a string.