STRCAT(3) Linux Programmer's Manual STRCAT(3) NAME strcat, strncat - concatenate two strings SYNOPSIS #include <string.h> char *strcat(char *dest, const char *src); char *strncat(char *dest, const char *src, 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 only the first n characters of src are appended to dest. RETURN VALUE The strcat() and strncat() functions return a pointer to the resulting string dest. CONFORMING TO SVID 3, POSIX, BSD 4.3, ISO 9899 SEE ALSO bcopy(3), memccpy(3), memcpy(3), strcpy(3), strncpy(3) GNU April 11, 1993 1