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Name

wcscat - concatenate two wide-character strings

Library

Standard C library ( libc ", " -lc )

Synopsis

#include <wchar.h> 
wchar_t *wcscat(wchar_t *restrict  dest \
", const wchar_t *restrict " src );

Description

The wcscat() function is the wide-character equivalent of the strcat(3) function. It copies the wide-character string pointed to by src, including the terminating null wide character (L'\e0'), to the end of the wide-character string pointed to by dest.

The strings may not overlap.

The programmer must ensure that there is room for at least wcslen(dest) + wcslen(src) +1 wide characters at dest.

Return Value

wcscat() returns dest.

Attributes

For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see attributes(7). allbox; lbx lb lb T{ wcscat()
InterfaceAttributeValue
T}Thread safetyMT-Safe

Standards

C11, POSIX.1-2008.

History

POSIX.1-2001, C99.

See Also

  1. strcat(3),
  2. wcpcpy(3),
  3. wcscpy(3),
  4. wcsncat(3)