Concatenates two wide-character strings. Format #include <wchar.h> wchar_t *wcscat (wchar_t *wstr_1, const wchar_t *wstr_2);
1 – Function Variants
The wcscat function has variants named _wcscat32 and _wcscat64 for use with 32-bit and 64-bit pointer sizes, respectively.
2 – Arguments
wstr_1, wstr_2 Pointers to null-terminated wide-character strings.
3 – Description
The wcscat function appends the wide-character string wstr_2, including the terminating null character, to the end of wstr_1. See also wcsncat.
4 – Return Value
x The first argument, wstr_1, which is assumed to be large enough to hold the concatenated result.
5 – Example
#include <stdlib.h> #include <stdio.h> #include <wchar.h> #include <string.h> /* This program concatenates two wide- character strings using */ /* the wcscat function, and then manually compares the result */ /* to the expected result */ #define S1LENGTH 10 #define S2LENGTH 8 main() { int i; wchar_t s1buf[S1LENGTH + S2LENGTH]; wchar_t s2buf[S2LENGTH]; wchar_t test1[S1LENGTH + S2LENGTH]; /* Initialize the three wide-character strings */ if (mbstowcs(s1buf, "abcmnexyz", S1LENGTH) == (size_t)-1) { perror("mbstowcs"); exit(EXIT_FAILURE); } if (mbstowcs(s2buf, " orthis", S2LENGTH) == (size_t)-1) { perror("mbstowcs"); exit(EXIT_FAILURE); } if (mbstowcs(test1, "abcmnexyz orthis", S1LENGTH + S2LENGTH) perror("mbstowcs"); exit(EXIT_FAILURE); } /* Concatenate s1buf with s2buf, placing the result */ /* into * s1buf. Then compare s1buf with the expected */ /* result in test1. */ wcscat(s1buf, s2buf); for (i = 0; i < S1LENGTH + S2LENGTH - 2; i++) { /* Check that each character is correct */ if (test1[i] != s1buf[i]) { printf("Error in wcscat\n"); exit(EXIT_FAILURE); } } printf("Concatenated string: <%S>\n", s1buf); } Running the example produces the following result: Concatenated string: <abcmnexyz orthis>