NAME
strcat —
concatenate two strings without bounds
checking
SYNOPSIS
#include
<string.h>
char *
strcat(char
*dst, const char
*append);
DESCRIPTION
The
strcat()
function appends a copy of the NUL-terminated string
append to the end of the NUL-terminated string
dst, then adds a terminating
‘\0’.
No bounds checking is performed. If the buffer dst is not large enough to hold the result, subsequent memory will be damaged.
RETURN VALUES
The strcat() function return the pointer
dst.
SEE ALSO
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.