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Geek Culture / Concatenation symbol

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M00NSHiNE
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Hi all, sorry to waste a thread on a stupid question, but Id like to know what the concatenation symbol in DBPro does- before coming here I looked it up in a dictionary:

"A series of things depending on each other"

Well, that just confused me more. Can anyone help?

Cheers.

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Neophyte
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Posted: 19th Nov 2003 16:49
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It joins two lines together.

Assuming that the concatenation symbol is "..."

So this:

Hello...
World. How are you doing?

Would become this:

HelloWorld. How are you doing?

In short its to help make your code more readable. You don't have to scroll left to right to see the end of a line. You can just shorten it like so.
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M00NSHiNE
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Thankyou very much for clearing that up.

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CattleRustler
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Posted: 19th Nov 2003 16:51
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I think it's supposed to be a directive to the compiler to be able to use more than 1 line for a single line of code

Like _
If _
You wanted _
to _
code like this _
for some strange _
Reason _

I tried it once and I think it wasn't working, not sure tho. It is handy for long lines of code, and for organizing but like I said I don't think it works.

oh and btw, concatenation in programming usually means to "join" or "concatenate" two items of data, usually strings

strFirstName ; " " ; strLastName is considered concatenated

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the_winch
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Posted: 19th Nov 2003 17:07
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It's performed by the ide and you can set it to what you want under tools > system options > editing tab.

It's set to "_" in my copy of the ide.

I don't know if it works or not, I find massive lines more readable so never use it.

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David T
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Posted: 19th Nov 2003 18:27 Edited at: 19th Nov 2003 19:00
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Its mainly used for huge strings / commands:



"Help! My keyboard is stuckkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk"

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Ian T
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Yes I find massive lines more readable too . Old habits die hard... we didn't have that back in Classic.

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A very nice %it, indeed.
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CattleRustler
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does the _

_ have to be on both sides?


Is that why _
_ it is not working for me in the ide?

ooops!

I am used to vb _
where you only _
leave the end of the line _
with the concatenation _
symbol.

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Neophyte
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Posted: 19th Nov 2003 19:32
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@CattleRustler

"does the _

_ have to be on both sides?"

No. Try ... as the concatenation symbol. I believe it was changed to that in an IDE update.
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will do

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