Strings

Strings

Strings are sequences of characters. The literal representation of a string is surrounded by double quotes. For example:

"MEL is fun!"

"abcdef012345"

":<>()&^%ABC"

Within strings you can use codes to include some special characters:

NoteIn MEL scripts, do not split strings across lines without using a line continuation character ‘\’.

Concatenating strings

You can stick strings together (concatenate them, in programmer parlance) using the + operator:

"MEL" + " is fun!"

// This is the same as "MEL is fun!"