Strings may be appended together using the append operator, //. Scalar values can also be appended to strings using the RCHAR function. For example, suppose A = -1.234, and T is a scalar text variable with T = ` units'. function result ----------------------------------------------------------------- `A= '//RCHAR(A)//T `A= -1.234 units' `A= '//RCHAR(A,`F4.1')//T `A= -1.2 units'