WCSNCAT

Section: Linux Programmer's Manual (3)
Updated: 1999-07-25
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NAME

wcsncat - concatenate two wide-character strings

SYNOPSIS

#include <wchar.h>

wchar_t *wcsncat(wchar_t *dest, const wchar_t *src, 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 Laq\0aq character.

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.

CONFORMING TO

C99.

COLOPHON

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