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2 | .\" All rights reserved. |
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4 | .\" This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by | |
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5 | .\" Chris Torek and the American National Standards Committee X3, |
6 | .\" on Information Processing Systems. | |
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36 | .\" @(#)strcat.3 5.6 (Berkeley) 6/29/91 |
37 | .\" | |
38 | .Dd June 29, 1991 | |
39 | .Dt STRCAT 3 | |
40 | .Os | |
41 | .Sh NAME | |
42 | .Nm strcat | |
43 | .Nd concatenate strings | |
44 | .Sh SYNOPSIS | |
45 | .Fd #include <string.h> | |
46 | .Ft char * | |
47 | .Fn strcat "char *s" "const char *append" | |
48 | .Ft char * | |
49 | .Fn strncat "char *s" "const char *append" "size_t count" | |
50 | .Sh DESCRIPTION | |
51 | The | |
52 | .Fn strcat | |
b8dfab23 | 53 | and |
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54 | .Fn strncat |
55 | functions | |
b8dfab23 | 56 | append a copy of the null-terminated string |
af359dea | 57 | .Fa append |
2b62f761 | 58 | to the end of the null-terminated string |
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59 | .Fa s , |
60 | then add a terminating | |
61 | .Ql \e0 . | |
b8dfab23 | 62 | The string |
af359dea | 63 | .Fa s |
2b62f761 | 64 | must have sufficient space to hold the result. |
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65 | .Pp |
66 | The | |
67 | .Fn strncat | |
68 | function | |
69 | appends not more than | |
70 | .Fa count | |
d68600ae | 71 | characters. |
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72 | .Sh RETURN VALUES |
73 | The | |
74 | .Fn strcat | |
b8dfab23 | 75 | and |
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76 | .Fn strncat |
77 | functions | |
b8dfab23 | 78 | return the pointer |
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79 | .Fa s . |
80 | .Sh SEE ALSO | |
81 | .Xr bcopy 3 , | |
82 | .Xr memccpy 3 , | |
83 | .Xr memcpy 3 , | |
84 | .Xr memmove 3 , | |
85 | .Xr strcpy 3 | |
86 | .Sh STANDARDS | |
87 | The | |
88 | .Fn strcat | |
d68600ae | 89 | and |
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90 | .Fn strncat |
91 | functions | |
92 | conform to | |
93 | .St -ansiC . |