strcat, wcscat, _mbscat

Append a string.

char *strcat( char *strDestination, const char *strSource );

wchar_t *wcscat( wchar_t *strDestination, const wchar_t *strSource );

unsigned char *_mbscat( unsigned char *strDestination, const unsigned char *strSource );

For additional compatibility information, see Compatibility in the Introduction.

Libraries

Return Value

Each of these functions returns the destination string (strDestination). No return value is reserved to indicate an error.

Parameters

strDestination

Null-terminated destination string

strSource

Null-terminated source string

Remarks

The strcat function appends strSource to strDestination and terminates the resulting string with a null character. The initial character of strSource overwrites the terminating null character of strDestination. No overflow checking is performed when strings are copied or appended. The behavior of strcat is undefined if the source and destination strings overlap.

wcscat and _mbscat are wide-character and multibyte-character versions of strcat. The arguments and return value of wcscat are wide-character strings; those of _mbscat are multibyte-character strings. These three functions behave identically otherwise.

Generic-Text Routine Mappings

Example

/* STRCPY.C: This program uses strcpy
 * and strcat to build a phrase.
 */

#include <string.h>
#include <stdio.h>

void main( void )
{
   char string[80];
   strcpy( string, "Hello world from " );
   strcat( string, "strcpy " );
   strcat( string, "and " );
   strcat( string, "strcat!" );
   printf( "String = %s\n", string );
}

Output

String = Hello world from strcpy and strcat!

String Manipulation Routines

See Also   strncat, strncmp, strncpy, _strnicmp, strrchr, strspn