in this sectionyou'll learn about three basic string operations concatenationwhich joins two strings together indexingwhich gets single character from string slicingwhich gets several characters from string at once let' dive instring concatenation you can combineor concatenatetwo strings using the operatorstring "abrastring "cadabramagic_string string string magic_string 'abracadabrain this examplethe string concatenation occurs on the third line you concatenate string and string using +and then you assign the result to the variable magic_string notice that the two strings are joined without any whitespace between them you can use string concatenation to join two related stringssuch as joining first name and last name into full namefirst_name "arthurlast_name "dentfull_name first_name last_name full_name 'arthur denthereyou use string concatenation twice on the same line firstyou concatenate first_name with to ensure space appears after the first name in the final string this produces the string "arthur "which you then concatenate with last_name to produce the full name "arthur dent