String concatenation does not work in SQLite

Ian Vink picture Ian Vink · Aug 25, 2010 · Viewed 89k times · Source

I am trying to execute a SQlite replace function, but use another field in the function.

select  locationname + '<p>' from location;

In this snip, the result is a list of 0s. I would have expected a string with the text from locationname and the '<p>' literals.

Answer

codaddict picture codaddict · Aug 25, 2010

Try using || in place of +

select  locationname || '<p>' from location;

From SQLite documentation:

The || operator is "concatenate" - it joins together the two strings of its operands.