Strings are lines of text. More specifically, they are groups of single-byte characters (pretty much any characters you'd normally see in English).

To create a string in Lua, surround the text in quotes:

local myString = "Some text in the string"
-- or
local myOtherString = 'Some other text in a different string'

You can concatenate strings by separating the strings with two periods:

local first = "ABC"
local second = "DEF"
local last = "XYZ"
local combined = first..second.." and straight to "..last
-- combined is now "ABCDEF and straight to XYZ"

See also:

• WString
• WStringToString()
• StringToWString()
•  Lua-users Wiki: String Library