Like other scripting languages there are many ways to concatenate text. One method that get's used a lot in javascript is to use to push string instances into an array and then join the text like this...

myList =["<ul id='myList'>"];

      for(r in data)

      {

            if(this == theOtherThing)

            {

                  myList.push("<li>"+this+"</li>");

            } 

            //end of if

      }

      //end of loop

             var html = myList.join("");

      $(myList).hide().appendTo("body").fadeIn(500); //ok just a little jQuery

Anyways, that's javascript. One thing that really drives me nuts about DS is it's lack of the += operator. So building strings up like this isn't possible...

str = "";

      for each r in myList

       {

            str += "<li>"+r+"</li>";

      }

NOPE! Can't do it you have to do it like this!

Drives me nuts... 

Anyways, here's how I concatenate text now.. 

     str = {}; //OR str = List();

     

      for each r in myList

      {

            myList.add("<li>"+r+"<li>");

      }

      

      html = thisapp.join(myList);

Here's that join function I use... 

(BTW ZC where are our join and explode methods! You have a toString method but not the same. ).