Operator Concatenate and Assign

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Operator &= (Concatenate And Assign)

Appends and assigns a string onto another string

Syntax

Declare Operator &= ( ByRef lhs As String, ByRef rhs As T2 )
Declare Operator &= ( ByRef lhs As WString, ByRef rhs As T2 )

Parameters

• lhs
• rhs
• lhs
• T2

Description

This operator appends one string onto another. The right-hand side expression (rhs) is converted to a string before concatenation. It is functionally equivalent to,
lhs = lhs & rhs
where the result is assigned back to the left-hand side string.

This operator can be overloaded for user-defined types as a member Operator using the appropriate syntax.

Note: This operator exists in C/C++ with a different meaning - there it performs a bitwise And=. Note: Similarly to the operator '=[>]' (assign), the alternative symbol '&=>' can be also used.

Remarks

Usage

lhs &= rhs

Dialect Differences

• In the -lang qb dialect, this operator cannot be overloaded.

Differences from QB

• New to FreeBASIC

See also

• Operator & (String Concatenation With Conversion)
• Operator += (Add And Assign)

Examples

Dim s As String = "Hello, "

s &= " world!"

Print s

will produce the output:

Hello, world!

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Category: Operators
Kind: operator

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