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From: darwinl@alliance.uucp (Darwin Ling)
Subject: Re: help with strcat
Message-ID: <1991Jun5.152229.14387@alliance.uucp>
Organization: Alliance Technologies, Inc.
References: <CSHORT.91Jun4131435@haywire.crl> <1991Jun4.210209.28463@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
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Date: Wed, 5 Jun 91 15:22:29 GMT

In article <1991Jun4.210209.28463@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> gordon@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu (John Gordon) writes:
>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." */
>
>
>---
>John Gordon
>Internet: gordon@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu        #include <disclaimer.h>
>          gordon@cerl.cecer.army.mil       #include <clever_saying.h>

Or even easier 

do sprintf (str3, "%s%s", str1, str2);