The concatenation operator ignores null operands.
SQL> SQL> BEGIN-- from w w w . j a v a 2s . c o m 2 DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE ('>' || NULL || NULL || '<'); 3 DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE (NULL || NULL); 4 --DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE (NULL || "Test"); 5 END; 6 / SQL> SQL>