Time to re-examine strings. From an earlier tutorial page, its been noted that a string is simply a piece of data that contains letters and may contain numbers as well. Basically though, it is a non-fully-numeric piece of data. This page will show some different abilities you can do with strings.

Connecting or combining strings. JavaScript uses the + (plus) symbol to connect strings. Perl uses the . (period) symbol.

$firstname = "John"; $lastname = "Smith"; $fullname1 = $firstname . $lastname; $fullname2 = $firstname . " " . $lastname;

$fullname1 has the value of "JohnSmith". The script literally combined the two scalar variables together. The second combining script line shows how to put a space in there. $fullname2 has the value of "John Smith".

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Strings can have a repetition operator. That is the one string may be repeated (copied and combined) onto itself.

$result = "Dave" x 4;

The $result will contain the value "DaveDaveDaveDave"

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Case operators control the CaSe LeTtErInG.

Case Op	Escape Equivalent	Result
lc	\L	All letters in the string are converted to lower case.
lcfirst	\l	Only the first letter in the string is converted to lowercase.
uc	\U	All letters in the string are converted to upper case.
ucfirst	\u	Only the first letter in the string id converted to uppercase.

$name1="Jack"; $name2="Jill"; $newname1= lc $name1; $newname2= uc $name2; print "name1 is $name1. <br>"; print "name2 is $name2. <br>"; print "newname1 is $newname1. <br>"; print "newname2 is $newname2.";

See it in action!