Concatenation operator

The concatenation operator // concatenates two string expressions.

The result of concatenation is always a string.

Rule:
The strings specified as operands are concatenated contiguously without gaps.

Example

/A = 'Date: '
/B = DATE(FORMAT = *AMERICAN)
/C = A // B

The C string ’Date: ’ is assigned directly to variable A; variable B is assigned the result of the function DATE as a string. These strings are concatenated to form a new string, which is assigned to variable C. C then has the following contents: ’Date: 06/26/96’.