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1 | .\" Copyright (c) 1990 The Regents of the University of California. |
| 2 | .\" All rights reserved. | |
| 3 | .\" | |
| 4 | .\" This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by | |
| 5 | .\" Chris Torek. | |
| 6 | .\" | |
| 7 | .\" %sccs.include.redist.man% | |
| 8 | .\" | |
| b8dfab23 | 9 | .\" @(#)strcat.3 5.3 (Berkeley) %G% |
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10 | .\" |
| 11 | .TH STRCAT 3 "" | |
| 12 | .UC 4 | |
| 13 | .SH NAME | |
| 14 | strcat \- concatenate strings | |
| 15 | .SH SYNOPSIS | |
| 16 | .nf | |
| 17 | .ft B | |
| 18 | #include <string.h> | |
| 19 | ||
| 20 | char * | |
| 21 | strcat(char *s, const char *append); | |
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22 | |
| 23 | char * | |
| 24 | strncat(char *s, const char *append, size_t count); | |
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25 | .ft R |
| 26 | .fi | |
| 27 | .SH DESCRIPTION | |
| 28 | .B Strcat | |
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29 | and |
| 30 | .B strncat | |
| 31 | append a copy of the null-terminated string | |
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32 | .I append |
| 33 | to the end of the null-terminated string | |
| 34 | .IR s , | |
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35 | then add a terminating '\e0'. |
| 36 | The string | |
| 37 | .I s | |
| 2b62f761 | 38 | must have sufficient space to hold the result. |
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39 | .PP |
| 40 | .B Strncat | |
| 41 | appends at most | |
| 42 | .I count | |
| 43 | characters. | |
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44 | .PP |
| 45 | .B Strcat | |
| 46 | and | |
| 47 | .B strncat | |
| 48 | return the pointer | |
| 49 | .IR s . | |
| 2b62f761 | 50 | .SH SEE ALSO |
| b8dfab23 | 51 | bcopy(3), memccpy(3), memcpy(3), memmove(3), strcpy(3) |
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52 | .SH STANDARDS |
| 53 | .B Strcat | |
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54 | and |
| 55 | .B strncat | |
| 56 | conform to ANSI X3.159-1989 (``ANSI C''). |