Visual Basic 2015 Unleashed

Concatenation Operators

As in the previous versions, Visual Basic 2015 still offers concatenation operators: the + and & symbols. The main difference between them is that the + symbol is intended for numeric additions, although it can also work with strings; the & symbol is defined only for strings, and it should be preferred when concatenating strings so that you can avoid possible errors. Listing 4.2 shows an example of concatenation.

LISTING 4.2 Concatenation Operators

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Module ConcatenationOperators    Sub ConcatenationDemo()        Dim firstString As String = "Alessandro"        Dim secondString As String = "Del Sole"        Dim completeString As String = firstString & secondString        'The following still ...