NAME
strcat —
concatenate two strings
SYNOPSIS
#include
<string.h>
char *
strcat(char
*s, const char
*append);
DESCRIPTION
The
strcat()
function appends a copy of the NUL-terminated string
append to the end of the NUL-terminated string
s, then adds a terminating
‘\0’. The string
s must have sufficient space to hold the result.
RETURN VALUES
The strcat() function return the pointer
s.
SEE ALSO
bcopy(3), memccpy(3), memcpy(3), memmove(3), strcpy(3), strlcpy(3), strncat(3), wcscat(3), wcslcpy(3)
STANDARDS
The strcat() function conforms to
ANSI X3.159-1989
(“ANSI C89”).
HISTORY
The strcat() function first appeared in
the Programmer's Workbench (PWB/UNIX) and was ported to
Version 7 AT&T UNIX.