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How to concatenate strings in AppleScript

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I’m used to using the + operator to concatenate strings in JavaScript, Swift, Python and other languages.

So I tried that in AppleScript but it didn’t work.

In AppleScript you use the & operator:

set example to "hello"
"testing " & example

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