Working with Text

Enemy 1 of 5

Text in Swift is stored as a String value, written between double quotes. You can join two strings together with +, the same operator you use for adding numbers — Swift recognizes that + between two String values means "join them together" rather than "add them numerically."

Using + repeatedly works fine for joining two or three pieces, but it gets awkward once you're weaving several values — some text, a name, a number, more text — into a single sentence. That's precisely the problem the next section, string interpolation, is designed to solve more elegantly.