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string_exp - Character String Operator

One string operator is currently available for string expressions.

Syntax

... operand1 && operand2 ...

Effect

The chaining operator && concatenates two operands in a string expression as a character string.

The operand positions operand are character-like expression positions, which means that character-like data objects, string expressions, and predefined functions, or functional methods and method chainings whose return code has a character-like data type, can be specified. In particular, this means that string templates can also be specified.

In operands with a fixed length, trailing blanks are ignored.

Notes

Example

Concatenation of four operands as the character string "Hello world!". The last operand is a string template that has only literal content.

DATA text TYPE string VALUE `Hello`.

text  = text && ` ` &&  'world' && |!|.