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Meaning#

A byte sequence. Lua 5.1 #text counts bytes, not UTF-8 characters. Concatenate strings with .. .

LUA

local text = "ship"
local upper = string.upper(text)
local same = text:upper()
local joined = text .. "_name"

What happens: upper = "SHIP", same = "SHIP", joined = "ship_name"; the original text remains "ship".

This fragment does not print or write a log message. The values shown are the expected results of the example.

Function	Returns	Purpose
string.byte	`number`, ...	Returns numeric byte values for the selected string range.
string.char	`string`	Constructs a string from numeric byte values.
string.find	(`number`, `number`, ...) \| `nil`	Returns match start/end positions followed by pattern captures, or nil when unmatched.
string.format	`string`	Builds a string from a format specification and supplied values.
string.gmatch	`function`	Returns a Lua-pattern match iterator; Lua patterns are distinct from PCRE regular expressions.
string.lower	`string`	Returns a lowercase copy; it is not a general Unicode case converter.
string.rep	`string`	Returns a string repeated the requested number of times.
string.upper	`string`	Returns an uppercase copy; it is not a general Unicode case converter.