Concatenation of strings in Lua
In many languages you can concatenate strings on variable assignment. I have a scenario, using the Lua programming language, where I need to append the output of a command to an existing variable. Is there a functional equivalent in Lua to the below examples? Examples of other languages: ===== PERL ===== $filename = "checkbook"; $filename .= ".tmp"; ================ ===== C# ===== string filename = "checkbook"; filename += ".tmp"; =============== Thank you in advance for your help. RBerteig As other answers have said, the string concatenation operator in Lua is two dots. Your simple example