You yourself answered the question, but to make things a little clearer:
variable + 1
is an arithmetic expression - add 1 to the value of the variable.
variable+1
- operation of shifting a character variable. For example, if the variable contains ABC, variable+1- BC.
NUMC. , variable = '4711', variable + 1 4712, variable+1 - '711' ( ).
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