Thursday, January 10, 2013

|| Operator


In Oracle/PLSQL, the || operator allows you to concatenate 2 or more strings together.

Syntax

The syntax for the || operator is:
string1 || string2 || string_n
string1 is the first string to concatenate.
string2 is the second string to concatenate.
string_n is the nth string to concatenate.

Applies To

  • Oracle 11g, Oracle 10g, Oracle 9i, Oracle 8i

For Example

'Tech on' || ' the Net'would return 'Tech on the Net'
'a' || 'b' || 'c' || 'd'would return 'abcd'