How do I concatenate two strings in Java?

Question

I am trying to concatenate strings in Java. Why isn\'t this working?

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Answer 1

You can concatenate Strings using the + operator:

System.out.println("Your number is " + theNumber + "!");

theNumber is implicitly converted to the String "42".