How to concatenate strings in Octave

In order to concatenate strings, in GNU Octave, use this snippet:

% Concatenate and assign to a variable named "concatenated"
concatenated = strcat("test", "123");
% OPTIONAL: Show the value of the "concatenated" variable in the terminal
disp(concatenated); % Displays "test123" (without quotes) in the terminal

Similarly, you can concatenate three or more strings:

strcat("test", "123", "456"); # test123456

You don’t have to use literal strings, you can also use variables instead:

mystr = "xyz";
strcat("test", mystr, "456"); # testxyz456

Alternatively you can use this short syntax (no commata between the strings!):

concatenated = ["test" "123"]

% Show the value
disp(concatenated);