A string can contain null characters (\0), meaning it can be used to store arbitrary binary data. string.unpack and string.pack can be used to manipulate binary strings. In members, null-terminated strings are only accepted, meaning that strings with a null character will be truncated before it. However, certain members can return a string that is not null-terminated, such as File:GetBinaryContents.

Literals

String literals are declared by being between two quotation marks (") or apostrophes ('). A backslash followed by the letter n ("\n") will jump to a new line, while a backslash followed by the letter t ("\t") will insert a tab space at the location.

Lua also provides multiple quoting using square brackets ([[string]]). The opening brackets can also include any number of equal signs with the closing brackets having the same number of signs ([=[string]=]).

Example

a = "a string" --Notice how the message/string is between the quotation marks
b = 'another string'
c = [[This is
 Multiple
 Lines!
 
 And it works!!!]]

External links

• Strings on the Roblox Creator Documentation.