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Question: Concatenating strings and floats

Question:Concatenating strings and floats

Carlo Carminati 35 Maple 9
January 20 2012
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Here is a simple example from the Maple Help (nersion 9.03):
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i := 5; cat( "The value of i is ", i, "." );
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which yields
  "The value of i is 5."

I would like to use the same syntax to generate a string to be printed at the beginning of a data file (so that I can remember what are the figures in the files); for instance I want to specify that this set has been generated choosing the value of a parameter alpha to be 0.618. So I write
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alpha:=0.618; cat( "The value of alpha is ", alpha, "." );
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and I get the following ugly-looking output
   "The value of alpha is " || (.618) || "."

Any idea how to obtain a normal string?
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