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STRCAT(3P) POSIX Programmer's Manual STRCAT(3P)
This manual page is part of the POSIX Programmer's Manual. The Linux implementation of this interface may differ (consult the corresponding Linux manual page for details of Linux behavior), or the interface may not be implemented on Linux.
strcat — concatenate two strings
#include <string.h> char *strcat(char *restrict s1, const char *restrict s2);
The functionality described on this reference page is aligned with the ISO C standard. Any conflict between the requirements described here and the ISO C standard is unintentional. This volume of POSIX.1‐2008 defers to the ISO C standard. The strcat() function shall append a copy of the string pointed to by s2 (including the terminating NUL character) to the end of the string pointed to by s1. The initial byte of s2 overwrites the NUL character at the end of s1. If copying takes place between objects that overlap, the behavior is undefined.
The strcat() function shall return s1; no return value is reserved to indicate an error.
No errors are defined. The following sections are informative.
None.
This version is aligned with the ISO C standard; this does not affect compatibility with XPG3 applications. Reliable error detection by this function was never guaranteed.
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strncat(3p) The Base Definitions volume of POSIX.1‐2008, string.h(0p)
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from IEEE Std 1003.1, 2013 Edition, Standard for Information
Technology -- Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX), The Open
Group Base Specifications Issue 7, Copyright (C) 2013 by the
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc and The Open
Group. (This is POSIX.1-2008 with the 2013 Technical Corrigendum 1
applied.) In the event of any discrepancy between this version and
the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard, the original IEEE and
The Open Group Standard is the referee document. The original
Standard can be obtained online at http://www.unix.org/online.html .
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IEEE/The Open Group 2013 STRCAT(3P)
Pages that refer to this page: string.h(0p), localeconv(3p), strncat(3p)