title: Joining literal text to a variable (string concatenation) in Erlang
body: <p>I have: <code>String = "there"</code></p>
  
  <p>I have tried various things such as: <code>"Hello " ++ String</code> and <code>string:concat("Hello", String)</code>.  The output always ends up with the literal string "Hello" being the integers representing the characters of the string, instead of the letters.</p>
  
  <p>How can I combine a literal string and a string in a variable, in Erlang?</p>