Say I want to append a string onto the end of a string received in the form of a command line argument and assigned to a pointer-to-char. How do I do that? Can I use strcat(), or is that not a safe thing to do?
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Say I want to append a string onto the end of a string received in the form of a command line argument and assigned to a pointer-to-char. How do I do that? Can I use strcat(), or is that not a safe thing to do?
strcat() will do that, but you have to ensure that the buffer you use to hold the result is large enough. This might mean calling malloc()Quote:
Originally Posted by Sharke
I see. I'm using malloc() now and everything seems fine.