String Concatenation Operator

In addition to serving as the addition operator for numeric values, the + operator can be used to concatenate strings, similar to the concat function. For example, both lines of code below will give the same result:

string text1 = "Hello";
string text2 = "World!";

string messagePlus = text1 + ", " + text2;

string messageConcat = concat(text1, ", ", text2);

The + operator is a convenient way to build strings and can be used along with other functions that return alphanumeric values.

If you are concatenating many strings, you might consider using StringWriter, an object that supports incrementally building a string.

Example

string message;

do numeric counter = 1 while counter <= 13 by 2
message = message + edit("99 ", counter);
enddo;

// message is now: "01 03 05 07 09 11 13"

See also: String Literals