From: "Campbell, Rolf [SKY:1U32:EXCH]" <cp1v45 AT americasm01 DOT nt DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Catenation (spelled right?) of strings
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 1999 10:51:14 -0400
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Moogla wrote:

> Robinson S. wrote:
> > How do I join those strings?
>
> 1) use the C library function strcat(char *, char *)
>
> char * THE_STRING = strcat("GOATS", "MAKE);

    That isn't going to work.  The "GOATS" string is a constant and cannot
be modified, but strcat will try to modify it, also, there is only 6 bytes
allocated to the "GOATS" string, and you will try to shove 10 in there with
strcat, which will overwrite other memory.


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