Re: [GENERAL] concatenation of string literals

On Fri, 17 Jul 1998, Kurt Seel wrote:

> This works :
> psql -c "select arcode ||  phnum from nccbor_member;"
>
>  But this doesn't
> psql -c " select arcode || '-' || phnum from nccbor_member;"
>
>  It's an inconvience because I am doing mail merges in wordperfect
> using postodbc, and I keep having to do things like put dashes in
> phone numbers and such in wordperfect, is there another way to concat
> string
literals?
>
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You will probably need to put parenthases around either the first two or
the last two strings:

psql -c " select (arcode || '-') || phnum from nccbor_member;"

that should work fine