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I know in PHP we can do something like this :

$hello = "foo";
$my_string = "I pity the $hello";

output : "I pity the foo"

I was wondering if this same thing is possible in JavaScript as well. Using variables inside strings without using concatenation -- it looks more concise and elegant to write.

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Nope that is not possible in javascript. You will have to resort to:

var hello = "foo";
var my_string = "I pity the " + hello;
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Okay, Thanks.... – DMin Jul 21 '10 at 21:32
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@DMin: You are welcome. – Sarfraz Jul 21 '10 at 21:32
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Take a look at below, it does same! http://code.google.com/p/jsstring/

PS : Too late answer, but if someone come to this by searching they may find it useful.

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well you could do this, but it's not esp general

'I pity the $fool'.replace('$fool', 'fool')

You could easily write a function that does this intelligently if you really needed to

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If you're trying to do interpolation for microtemplating, I like Mustache.js for that purpose.

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No, although you could try sprintf for JavaScript to get halfway there:

var hello = "foo";
var my_string = sprintf("I pity the %s", hello);
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