concat concatenates two or more strings.
Syntax
concat(expression1,expression2[,expression3...])
Arguments
concat takes two or more string expressions as arguments.
- expression
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The expression must be a string. It can be the name of a field that uses the string data type, a literal value like
'12 Main Street', or a call to another function that outputs a string.
Return type
String
Examples
The following example concatenates three string fields and adds appropriate spacing.
concat(salutation, ' ', firstName, ' ', lastName)The following are the given field values.
salutation firstName lastName
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Ms. Li Juan
Dr. Ana Carolina Silva
Mr. Nikhil JayashankarFor these field values, the following values are returned.
Ms. Li Juan
Dr. Ana Carolina Silva
Mr. Nikhil JayashankarThe following example concatenates two string literals.
concat('Hello', 'world')The following value is returned.
Helloworld
