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Addition, Subtraction, String Concatenation
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The order in which items appear in this table is arbitrary. All operators have equal precedence in ACL.
Addition, subtraction, string concatenation table
+
$n + $m evaluates to the sum of $n added to $m.
-
$i - 2 evaluates to the value of $i less 2.
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"ch1" . ".xml" evaluates to “ch1.xml”.
The following operators are numeric and require numeric operands:
+, -, *, /, &, ^, |, <<, >>, %, ~, ++, and ––
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