Concatenation

In formal language theory (and therefore in programming languages), concatenation is the operation of joining two character strings end to end. For example, the strings "foo" and "bar" may be concatenated to give "foobar". In programming languages, string concatenation is usually accomplished by putting a concatenation operator between two strings (operands). The following statement assumes the language

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Formal language - Theory - Programming language - Character strings - Operator - Operand

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uses the "+" symbol as its concatenation operator:

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print "Hello " + "World";

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This code will print to the screen:

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Hello World

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