Re: assign a string variable onto itself with concat ksh

In article <1159408639.704728.268900@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"theshowmecanuck" <theshowmecanuck@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi,
In a ksh script I would like to assign a string back onto itself
while concatenating another string to it... something like this:

optString="$optString$newString"

I have a string variable: $optString that has the value "r"

I then get another string variable: $newString that has a value of "o"

I would like to end up with optString having a value of "ro"

Works fine for me:

barmar $ optstring=r
barmar $ newstring=o
barmar $ optstring="$optstring$newstring"
barmar $ echo $optstring
ro

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