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Name

wcsncat - concatenate two wide-character strings

Library

Standard C library ( libc ", " -lc )

Synopsis

#include <wchar.h> 
wchar_t *wcsncat(wchar_t " dest "[restrict . n ],
const wchar_t " src "[restrict . n ],
size_t n );

Description

The wcsncat() function is the wide-character equivalent of the strncat(3) function. It copies at most n wide characters from the wide-character string pointed to by src to the end of the wide-character string pointed to by dest, and adds a terminating null wide character (L'\e0').

The strings may not overlap.

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

Return Value

wcsncat() returns dest.

Attributes

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

Standards

C11, POSIX.1-2008.

History

POSIX.1-2001, C99.

See Also

  1. strncat(3),
  2. wcscat(3)