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<div><h1>concatenate -- join strings</h1>
<div class="single"><h2>Description</h2>
<div><tt>concatenate(s,t,...,u)</tt> yields the concatenation of the strings s,t,...,u.<p/>
The arguments may also be lists or sequences of strings and symbols, in which case they are concatenated recursively. Additionally, an integer may be used to represent a number of spaces, and <a href="_null.html" title="the unique member of the empty class">null</a> will be represented by the empty string.<table class="examples"><tr><td><pre>i1 : concatenate {"a",("s",3,"d",),"f"}
o1 = as df</pre>
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<div class="single"><h2>See also</h2>
<ul><li><span><a href="___String.html" title="the class of all strings">String</a> -- the class of all strings</span></li>
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<div class="waystouse"><h2>Ways to use <tt>concatenate</tt> :</h2>
<ul><li>concatenate(BasicList)</li>
<li>concatenate(Nothing)</li>
<li>concatenate(String)</li>
<li>concatenate(Symbol)</li>
<li>concatenate(ZZ)</li>
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