concatenating characters not character strings?

I have an array of characters (not a char string) and I would like to take certain elements

example a[4] and a[13]

and concatenate them together to use in an equality test such as ( == "JR")

What is the simplest method to concatenate characters into a string to do this?

strcat seems to work on strings not simple characters

The easiest may well be to just compare the characters:

Code:

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if (a[4] == 'J' && a[13] == 'R')

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If you really want to form a string out of them:

Code:

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char sample[3] = "";
sample[0] = a[4];
sample[1] = a[13];
if (strcmp(sample, "JR") == 0)

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Note that your '== "JR"' idea won't work because you'll end up comparing pointers rather than strings.

Thank you....
strcmp was just what I was looking for