alternative to strcat/strncat

hey guys,

i want to use a string which includes a path to a folder several times for linking to different files that shall be copied. The path might change from machine to machine and the user is able to set it.


at the moment I am using

Code:

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CopyFileA(strcat(path,"file1"),.....);
CopyFileA(strcat(path,"file2"),.....);

and so on

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which of course does not work because

Code:

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strcat

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overwrites path after each call - so for

Code:

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file2

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it is not useable any more.

is there a more comfortable way instead of e.g. defining a char variable for each file and copying the "initial" path once in it?

Thanks for your answers...

You could use sprintf function. Something like

Code:

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char filepath[ BUIFSIZ ];

sprintf( filepath, "%s%s%s%s", file1, file2, file3, file4 );

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ssharish

I would suggest you stop trying to compress your code into as few lines as possible.

From what you are saying my understanding is that there is a "common" part to your path that you want to reuse?

Using multiple variables like you suggested can certainly work.

On another note, C does not have utilities for pretty much anything, it follows a do it yourself approach which increases the learning curve but at the same time gets you some very needed programming experience. In my experience, people who know C generally have an easier time adapting to other languages because they are not easily intimidated by not finding a function or method that solves their problem. They are used to building everything manually. :)

What i would probably say is to construct the filepath inside the function CopyFileA. This way you could avoid calling strcat many times and the concatenation will be done inside the function just once and use that path. Rather than constructing it at the call point.

Ssharish