# Strings in JavaScript | kirupa.com

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**Category:** programming\
**Created:** [November 23, 2014, 4:31am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/strings-in-javascript-kirupa-com/352307 "2014-11-23T04:31:50Z")\
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by [kirupa](http://www.kirupa.com/me/index.htm) | 24 March 2014

I have a hunch that you are a human being. As a human, you probably relate really well with words. You speak it. You write it. You also tend to use a lot of it in the things you program. As it turns out, JavaScript likes words a whole lot as well. The letters and funny looking symbols that make up your (and mine's) language has a formal name. They are known as **strings** :

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This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at [http://www.kirupa.com/html5/strings\_in\_javascript.htm](http://www.kirupa.com/html5/strings_in_javascript.htm)