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Strings vs Concatenation - What's the difference?

strings | concatenation |

As nouns the difference between strings and concatenation

is that strings is (string) while concatenation is (countable) a series of links united; a series or order of things depending on each other, as if linked together; a chain, a succession.

strings

English

Noun

(head)
  • (music, in the plural) Collectively, the stringed instruments in an orchestra.
  • (in the plural) Conditions, especially undesirable ones.
  • It looks like a good offer, but there are strings attached.
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    concatenation

    English

    (Wikipedia)

    Noun

  • (countable) A series of links united; a series or order of things depending on each other, as if linked together; a chain, a succession.
  • * 1927 , Albert Einstein, as quoted by H. G. Kessler in The Diary of a Cosmopolitan (1971)
  • Try and penetrate with our limited means the secrets of nature and you will find that, behind all the discernible concatenations , there remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable.
  • (uncountable) The application of these series of links.
  • (programming) Operation of joining multiple character strings.
  • See also

    * concatenate