text

Format:

text(text_expr [,text_expr [,text_expr ...]])

Result:

Text

Description:

This function evaluates one or more text expressions and concatenates the results to an output string.

The argument of the function can be a symbol that translates to the token list.

e.g.:

SPECTRA> s1 = “testing text"

SPECTRA> s2 = “2*3, date(), s1"

SPECTRA> * = string(s1)
2*3 30-FEB-1996 testing text
Note that '2*3' is not replaced by 6.

See also the descriptions of the functions string(), verbatim() and translate().