How do you concatenate strings in a Puppet .pp file?

Question

Here is my naive approach:

# puppet/init.pp
$x = \'hello \' + 
     \'goodbye\'

This does not work. How does one concatenate strings i

Answer 1

You could use the join() function from puppetlabs-stdlib. I was thinking there should be a string concat function there, but I don't see it. It'd be easy to write one.