# \$1concatArrays
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The `$concatArrays` aggregation operator in Amazon DocumentDB is used to concatenate two or more arrays into a single array. This can be useful when you need to combine multiple arrays of data into a single array for further processing or analysis.

**Parameters**
+ `array1`: The first array to be concatenated.
+ `array2`: The second array to be concatenated.
+ `[array3, ...]`: (optional) Additional arrays to be concatenated.

## Example (MongoDB Shell)
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The following example demonstrates how to use the `$concatArrays` operator to combine two arrays into a single array.

**Create sample documents**

```
db.collection.insertMany([
  {
    "_id": 1,
    "name": "John Doe",
    "hobbies": ["reading", "swimming"],
    "skills": ["programming", "design"]
  },
  {
    "_id": 2,
    "name": "Jane Smith",
    "hobbies": ["hiking", "cooking"],
    "skills": ["marketing", "analysis"]
  }
]);
```

**Query example**

```
db.collection.aggregate([
  {
    $project: {
      _id: 0,
      name: 1,
      all_activities: { $concatArrays: ["$hobbies", "$skills"] }
    }
  }
]);
```

**Output**

```
[
  {
    "name": "John Doe",
    "all_activities": [
      "reading",
      "swimming",
      "programming",
      "design"
    ]
  },
  {
    "name": "Jane Smith",
    "all_activities": [
      "hiking",
      "cooking",
      "marketing",
      "analysis"
    ]
  }
]
```

## Code examples
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To view a code example for using the `$concatArrays` command, choose the tab for the language that you want to use:

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#### [ Node.js ]

```
const { MongoClient } = require('mongodb');

async function example() {
  const client = await MongoClient.connect('mongodb://<username>:<password>@<cluster-endpoint>:27017/?tls=true&tlsCAFile=global-bundle.pem&replicaSet=rs0&readPreference=secondaryPreferred&retryWrites=false');
  const db = client.db('mydb');
  const collection = db.collection('mycollection');

  const result = await collection.aggregate([
    {
      $project: {
        _id: 0,
        name: 1,
        all_activities: { $concatArrays: ['$hobbies', '$skills'] }
      }
    }
  ]).toArray();

  console.log(result);
  client.close();
}

example();
```

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#### [ Python ]

```
from pymongo import MongoClient

def example():
    client = MongoClient('mongodb://<username>:<password>@<cluster-endpoint>:27017/?tls=true&tlsCAFile=global-bundle.pem&replicaSet=rs0&readPreference=secondaryPreferred&retryWrites=false')
    db = client['mydb']
    collection = db['mycollection']

    result = list(collection.aggregate([
        {
            '$project': {
                '_id': 0,
                'name': 1,
                'all_activities': { '$concatArrays': ['$hobbies', '$skills'] }
            }
        }
    ]))

    print(result)
    client.close()

example()
```

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