Name
strcat, strncat — concatenate two strings
Synopsis
#include <string.h>
char
*strcat( |
char * |
dest, |
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const char * |
src) ; |
char
*strncat( |
char * |
dest, |
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const char * |
src, |
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size_t |
n) ; |
DESCRIPTION
The strcat
() function
appends the src
string to the dest
string overwriting the `\0' character at the end of
dest
, and then adds a
terminating `\0' character. The strings may not overlap, and
the dest
string must
have enough space for the result.
The strncat
() function is
similar, except that it will use at most n
characters from src
. Since the result is always
terminated with `\0', at most n
+1 characters are written.
RETURN VALUE
The strcat
() and
strncat
() functions return a
pointer to the resulting string dest
.
CONFORMING TO
SVr4, 4.3BSD, C89, C99.
SEE ALSO
bcopy(3), memccpy(3), memcpy(3), strcpy(3), strncpy(3), wcscat(3), wcsncat(3)
Copyright 1993 David Metcalfe (david@prism.demon.co.uk)
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Modified Sat Jul 24 18:11:47 1993 by Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu)
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