Operator String Concatenation with Conversion

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Operator & (String Concatenation With Conversion)

Concatenates two strings, converting non-strings to strings as needed

Syntax

Declare Operator & ( ByRef lhs As T, ByRef rhs As U ) As V

Parameters

• lhs
• T
• rhs
• U
• V

Description

This operator concatenates two expressions. If either of the expressions is not a string type, it is converted to String with Str.

If either of the expressions is a WString, a WString is returned, otherwise a String is returned.

This operator can be overloaded to accept user-defined types.

Note: This operator exists in C/C++ with a different meaning - there it performs a bitwise And.

Remarks

Usage

result = lhs & rhs

Differences from QB

• New to FreeBASIC

See also

• Operator + (String Concatenation)
• Str

Examples

Dim As String A,C

Dim As Single B

A="The result is: "

B=124.3

C=A & B

Print C

Sleep

Output:

The result is: 124.3

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