Name

wcscat — concatenate two wide-character strings

Synopsis

#include <wchar.h>
wchar_t *wcscat( wchar_t *dest,
  const wchar_t *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'\0'), 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.

CONFORMING TO

C99.

SEE ALSO

strcat(3), wcpcpy(3), wcscpy(3), wcsncat(3)

COLOPHON

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  Copyright (c) Bruno Haible <haibleclisp.cons.org>

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References consulted:
  GNU glibc-2 source code and manual
  Dinkumware C library reference http://www.dinkumware.com/
  OpenGroup's Single UNIX specification http://www.UNIX-systems.org/online.html
  ISO/IEC 9899:1999