In the Text drawer, we find blocks related to manipulating strings—strings
being letters and spaces—in other words, words. There are currently 19 blocks in the Text drawer (see the top few in the following screenshot). We buzz through these for you with examples as warranted.
text: This block, the top one in the drawer, holds strings, and we can cram thousands of words in just one of these, so it has practically no limit so far as using it in an app is concerned. To put text in it, right-click on the lower text below (the word text
is the default value), and you can change it to whatever you like.
join: Joins two strings. Use it as shown in the next screenshot, which produces a label reading: This is a test and it was fun.
, and put a space at the end of test so that it and and will not run together.
By the way, the small triangles on the previous text blocks will often appear on blocks—they're simply shortcuts so that you can change the type to a related type. For example...