title: How to concatenate Strings in EL?
body: <p>Apparently, you cannot use the normal + operator to append strings in jsp...at least its not working for me. Is there a way to do it? Fragment of my code that is relevant...</p>
  
  <pre><code>${fn:length(example.name) &gt; 15 ? fn:substring(example.name,0,14) + '...' : example.name} // does not work because of + operator
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