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XML transform: Concat

Allows you to retrieve data from two or more inputs and combine the data into a single concatenated string.

Inputs and outputs

Input

There are two or more input elements.

Output

The string that is obtained by concatenating the strings from the input elements. You can specify properties to control the format of the concatenated string.

You can specify an alphanumeric character to be the delimiter between the strings, as well as a string prefix and a string postfix.

Properties

Concatenate the strings from the elements firstname and lastname, specify a space as the delimiter, a prefix of Mr. , and a comma as the postfix.

The result is: Mr. firstname lastname,

IBM supplied transform types in the XML map editor