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From: gordon@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu (John Gordon)
Subject: Re: help with strcat
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cshort@haywire.crl (Spmg*d, Lord of Potted Meat Product) writes:


>hi

>could someone show me some example code to take
>two char strings and combine them into another char 
>string.

char *str1 = "Joseph went";
char *str2 ' " to the store.";
char str3[100];

strcat(str3, str1); /* tacks str1 onto the end of str3 */
strcat(str3, str2); /* tacks str2 onto the end of str3 */

/* str3 should now be "Joseph went to the store." */


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