String Templates/Interpolation

In Kotlin, you can concatenate using String interpolation/templates:

val a = "Hello"
val b = "World"
val c = "$a $b"

The output will be: Hello World

• The compiler uses StringBuilder for String templates which is the most efficient approach in terms of memory because +/plus() creates new String objects.

Or you can concatenate using the StringBuilder explicitly.

val a = "Hello"
val b = "World"

val sb = StringBuilder()
sb.append(a).append(b)
val c = sb.toString()

print(c)

The output will be: HelloWorld

New String Object

Or you can concatenate using the + / plus() operator:

val a = "Hello"
val b = "World"
val c = a + b   // same as calling operator function a.plus(b)

print(c)

The output will be: HelloWorld

• This will create a new String object.