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From: toms@fcs260c2.ncifcrf.gov (Tom Schneider)
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Subject: Re: String Concatination
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Date: 13 May 91 17:33:54 GMT
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In article <1991May12.223939.14987@wam.umd.edu> mikec@wam.umd.edu
(Michael D. Callaghan) writes:

>I have two strings, say firstname and lastname.
>I want to make them into one,  say fullname.

Look on page 106: String operators.  You should be able to construct what you
want (some what awkwardly) using the copy and length functions.  (Or get/put or
getinterval/putinterval.)  Maybe someone else has already devised a simple
'concat' function?

  Tom Schneider
  National Cancer Institute
  Laboratory of Mathematical Biology
  Frederick, Maryland  21702-1201
  toms@ncifcrf.gov