Why do we assign a string with parenthesis?
eventText.text = ("hello world");
I see that this works also:
eventText.text = "hello world";
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Hi Paolo, welcome to the community 
You don’t, very unnecessary in this case.
See also;
- Forum User Guides : How to apply code formatting within your post
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thank you for the answer Rob.
Actually my question is because I would like to know what do parentheses mean around a string. What is the difference in putting them or not?
Thank you for your patience.
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It doesn’t mean/do anything.
With math you will find times where you need them, but not with strings.
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thank you very much!
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You’re very welcome
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I personally tend to use parentheses more than I need to with strings because its a habit based upon joining multiple things together… eg. Debug.Log(“string text” + variable). But as Rob says, they are completely not needed in your example - they dont hurt, but aren’t needed.
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oh great! now I get it! Thank you Rick.
Thank you! So Debug.Log() due to being a method would need the parenthesis if i understand correctly but I had been using something without parenthesis to concatinate like
scoreText.text = "Score: " + score;
I was wondering if there was a difference but both seemed to work so thank you for confirming
Yes, Log is a method within Debug, hence the parenthesis, these would be where parameters (if any) are passed in - note this is required for a method, not just because you are concatenating parameters.
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