From: Alan T. DeKok <aland@freeradius.org>
Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2023 19:46:20 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: note that you don't always have to use %concat()
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note that you don't always have to use %concat()

"+" is usually better.
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diff --git a/doc/antora/modules/reference/pages/xlat/builtin.adoc b/doc/antora/modules/reference/pages/xlat/builtin.adoc
index fce3e64bec7..acdb42d7f18 100644
--- a/doc/antora/modules/reference/pages/xlat/builtin.adoc
+++ b/doc/antora/modules/reference/pages/xlat/builtin.adoc
@@ -320,6 +320,9 @@ Used to join two or more attributes, separated by an optional delimiter.
 
 .Return: _string_
 
+In most cases, `%concat(...)` is only useful inside of a dynamically
+expanded string.  If you need to concatenate strings together in a policy, just use `+`.
+
 .Example
 
 [source,unlang]
@@ -343,6 +346,17 @@ aaa, bb, c
 aaa,bb,c
 ```
 
+.Using "+"
+[source,unlang]
+----
+string foo
+
+&foo += { "a", "c", "c", "d" } # abcd
+
+&foo += &control.Tmp-String-0[*]
+----
+
+
 === %explode(<&ref> <delim>)
 
 Split an string into multiple new strings based on a delimiter.