How do I Put An Expression Inside of a String of Text?

I'm working with a sprite font, and an instance variable called "Name" for a sprite called "Item".

I want the text to read: You got [Item.Name]. This way if the name of the Item is set to "a ball", the text will read "You got a ball."

I'm been fiddling with this for 20 minutes. If I write: You got Item.Name , Construct will come back with a syntax error. I put Item.Name in parentheses, quotes, nothing is working. What should I do?

Does this help?

"this is: "&aThing.name

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My mind is blown. I won't even ask how you did that, because i wouldn't be able to understand it.

Okay, I'll ask. How did you do that?! was it the & symbol? What does the & symbol do?

Short version:

"this is a string"

& lets you combine different types of things, like string, number and expressions like:

aThing.name

sample: "You got" & player.PickedCount & "X" & aThing.name

which can result in: You got 5 X watermelon

long version:

https://www.scirra.com/manual/78/expressions

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Thank you my friend!!