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Manuel Cano
1,058 Pointsusing concatenation with numbers?
So I know with string we were able to type something like this var string = ‘hello’; var string += ‘world’; and the output would be “helloworld”
it seems like you can’t do it with numbers, how exactly does that work? because I see it adds the number again next to it
var number number += parseInt(number); // if the user types 2 . then the result would be 22 not 2. So we’re unable to concatenate with integers? in this case do you just use equals to say turn it into integer and store it back in the same variable?
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Steven Parker
231,269 PointsThe "+" operator does addition on two numbers. But when either operand is a string it does concatenation, and implicitly converts the other operand to a string if it is a number.
So, 2 + 2 
"2" + 2
Does that answer your question?
Manuel Cano
1,058 PointsManuel Cano
1,058 PointsIt does, thank you!