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From: gordon@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu (John Gordon)
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Subject: Re: help with strcat
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Date: 5 Jun 91 15:15:13 GMT
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>>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." */

	OK, OK, so I made a mistake.  The first strcat() should be a strcpy().

John