Editing Concatenation (section)

{{Short description|Joining of strings in a programming language}}
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{{About|the string operation of computer programming}}
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[[File:20241229 Using concatenate function in spreadsheet to create SVG code - demo.svg|thumb|upright=2| A spreadsheet's concatenate ("&") function is used to assemble a complex text string—in this example, [[XML]] code for an [[SVG]] "circle" element.]]
In [[formal language|formal language theory]] and [[computer programming]], '''string concatenation''' is the operation of joining [[character string (computer science)|character strings]] end-to-end.  For example, the concatenation of "snow" and "ball" is "snowball". In certain formalizations of [[concatenation theory]], also called string theory, string concatenation is a [[primitive notion]].