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Start your free trialPatrik Karlsson
Courses Plus Student 436 PointsI don't understand how they want me to use the '+'
I don't understand how or where to place the '+' sign
name = "Patrik"
subject = "Treehouse loves"
subject + name
1 Answer
andren
28,558 PointsThe +
is used to combine two strings, since "Treehouse loves" is a string and name
is a string variable (which is treated identically to a string) you can combine them together directly on the second line like this:
name = "Patrik"
subject = "Treehouse loves " + name
Though one important thing to note is that when you combine strings using string concatenation they are glued together without any extra spacing added. So the code "Treehouse loves" + name
would actually produce the string "Treehouse lovesPatrik" since there is no space at the end or start of the two strings. This issue can be solved by simply placing a space manually at the end of the first string like I have done in the code I demonstrated above this paragraph.