String concatenation

There is no specific operation to represent string concatenation. Space is a string concatenation operator that is used to merge two strings.

In the following example, we create three string variables to perform concatenation at different locations. In the statement, str3 contains the concatenated value of str1 and str2. Each print statement performs string concatenation with a static string value and AWK variable:

$ vi string.awk

BEGIN    {
    OFS=","
    str1 = "Good"
    str2 = "Morning"
    num1 = "10"
    str3 = str1 " " str2;
    print "Concatenated string is : " str3
    num1 = num1+1
    print "string to number conversion on addition : " num1
    }

$ awk -f string.awk

The output on execution of the preceding code is as follows :

Concatenated string is : Good Morning
string to number conversion...