Concatenation Tool

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If you write script that has a lot String content mixed with variables, I'm sure you're doing a lot of heavy concatenation.
Building string combos with quotes and apostrophes sprinkled all over a script gets confusing. The way I like to keep this confusion to a minimum is to write my static markup separately. This allows me to make sure it shows up as intended. Then I concatenate my variables in all the places that need to have dynamic content.

Taking static markup or script and wrapping quotes around every line is a chore so I made this Concatenation Tool to help with that.

Currently I've only made this support languages I'm using mostly. If I have to use a new language I'd just add it in.

Below are some basic use case examples of where a concatenation tool can be useful.

JavaScript
Concatenating a content to add to a Jquery UI Dialog.
In this example I purposely used he "text()" method to show the XML content instead of "html()".

    <script type="text/javascript">
                $(document).ready(function(){
                var ns = "";
                ns += "<LIBRARY>";
                ns += "    <BOOK>";
                ns += "        <TITLE id=\"2356\">Charlotte's Web</TITLE>";
                ns += "        <AUTHOR>E. B. White</AUTHOR>";
                ns += "        <FAMOUS_SAYING>\"Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.\"</FAMOUS_SAYING>";
                ns += "    </BOOK>";
                ns += "    <BOOK>";
                ns += "        <TITLE id=\"95\">Scuffy the Tugboat</TITLE>";
                ns += "        <AUTHOR>Gertrude Crampton</AUTHOR>";
                ns += "        <FAMOUS_SAYING>\"Toot, tooot!\" cried the frightened tugboat.</FAMOUS_SAYING>";
                ns += "    </BOOK>";
                ns += "</LIBRARY>";
                $("#myDialog").dialog({width:400, height:400});               
                $("#myDialog p").text(ns);                
                });
    </script>

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Python
Concatenating with qoutes

ns = ""
ns += "<LIBRARY>"
ns += "    <BOOK>"
ns += "        <TITLE id=\"2356\">Charlotte's Web</TITLE>"
ns += "        <AUTHOR>E. B. White</AUTHOR>"
ns += "        <FAMOUS_SAYING>\"Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.\"</FAMOUS_SAYING>"
ns += "    </BOOK>"
ns += "    <BOOK>"
ns += "        <TITLE id=\"95\">Scuffy the Tugboat</TITLE>"
ns += "        <AUTHOR>Gertrude Crampton</AUTHOR>"
ns += "        <FAMOUS_SAYING>\"Toot, tooot!\" cried the frightened tugboat.</FAMOUS_SAYING>"
ns += "    </BOOK>"
ns += "</LIBRARY>"
print(ns)

Python concatenation with triple quotes to preserve the carriage returns

ns="""<LIBRARY>
    <BOOK>
        <TITLE id="2356">Charlotte's Web</TITLE>
        <AUTHOR>E. B. White</AUTHOR>
        <FAMOUS_SAYING>"Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder."</FAMOUS_SAYING>
    </BOOK>
    <BOOK>
        <TITLE id="95">Scuffy the Tugboat</TITLE>
        <AUTHOR>Gertrude Crampton</AUTHOR>
        <FAMOUS_SAYING>"Toot, tooot!" cried the frightened tugboat.</FAMOUS_SAYING>
    </BOOK>
</LIBRARY>"""
print(ns)

Concatenation with regular quotes
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Concatenation of blocks of text with triple quotes
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JSFL
Concatenating a XUL markup string for building Flash IDE Panel with JSFL.

if(fl.documents.length == 0){
	fl.createDocument("timeline");
}
//------------------------------------------------------------
//An existing folder for the panel's source to be written to.
//------------------------------------------------------------
var appFolderName="jsflUI_sample";
var date=new Date();
function writePanelSource()
{	
	var code = '';
	code += '<overlay>';
	code += '	<dialog id="app" title="Sample UI">';
	code += '		<hbox>';
	code += '			<spacer/>';
	code += '			<button id="b0" label="Button"/>';
	code += '		</hbox>';
	code += '		<separator/>';
	code += '		<vbox>';
	code += '			<label control="f0" value="Field 1" align="left"/>';
	code += '			<textbox id="f0" size="50" value="'+date.toString()+'"/>';
	code += '			<label control="f1" value="Field 2:" align="left"/>';
	code += '			<textbox id="f1" size="50" value=""/>';
	code += '		</vbox>';
	code += '		<checkbox id="cb0" label="Checkbox 1" checked="false" />';
	code += '		<checkbox id="cb1" label="Checkbox 2" checked="false" />';
	code += '	</dialog>';
	code += '</overlay>';		
	FLfile.write(fl.configURI + "Commands/"+appFolderName+"/panelsource.xml", code);	
	return code;
}

//----------------------------------------------------------------
//Writes the markup to "appFolderName" of Flash's "Commands folder
//----------------------------------------------------------------
writePanelSource();

//-------------------------------
//Open the Panel in Flash's IDE
//-------------------------------
fl.getDocumentDOM().xmlPanel(fl.configURI + "Commands/"+appFolderName+"/panelsource.xml");

Panel UI dialog from JSFL
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SharePoint
Concatenating CAML querys.

function getListData()
{	
	var clientContext = new SP.ClientContext.get_current();		
	var web = clientContext.get_web();	
	var userInfoList = web.get_lists().getByTitle('user_list')
	var camlQuery = new SP.CamlQuery();	
	var caml = '';
	caml += '<View>';
	caml += '	<Query>';
	caml += '		<OrderBy>';
	caml += '			<FieldRef Name="Title" Ascending="False" />';
	caml += '		</OrderBy>';
	caml += '	</Query>';
	caml += '</View>';	
	camlQuery.set_viewXml(caml);	
	collListItem = userInfoList.getItems(camlQuery);	
	clientContext.load(collListItem);
	var onQuerySucceeded=function(sender, args)
	{
		var oitem;
		var s='';
		var n=0;
		var len=collListItem.get_count();
		var results=[];		
		while(n < len)
		{
			oitem = collListItem.itemAt(n);
			s+="Title:"+oitem.get_item("Title")+"<br></br>";			
			n++;
		}		
		$("#output").append(s);		
	}
	var onQueryFailed=function(sender, args)
	{
		alert("Failed getting data.")
	}	
	clientContext.executeQueryAsync
        (
        Function.createDelegate(this, onQuerySucceeded),
        Function.createDelegate(this, onQueryFailed)
        );
}

Output of Title column from a SharePoint 2010 list.
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