concatenation of string literals

This works :
psql -c "select arcode ||  phnum from nccbor_member;"

 But this doesn't
psql -c " select arcode || '-' || phnum from nccbor_member;"

 It's an inconvience because I am doing mail merges in wordperfect
using postodbc, and I keep having to do things like put dashes in
phone numbers and such in wordperfect, is there another way to concat
string literals?

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Kurt Seel, Systems Engineer
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