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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'\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.
ATTRIBUTES¶
For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see attributes(7).
Interface | Attribute | Value |
wcscat () | Thread safety | MT-Safe |
STANDARDS¶
C11, POSIX.1-2008.
HISTORY¶
POSIX.1-2001, C99.
SEE ALSO¶
2023-03-30 | Linux man-pages 6.04 |