char *  strncat ( char * dest, const char * src, sizet_t num );

Append substring to string.
Appends num characters of src string to dest string. If the terminating null-character appears in src string before num character have been appended, the function appends the null-character to dest and ends.
The terminating null character in dest is overwritten by the first character of src. The resulting string includes a null-character at end.

Parameters.

dest

Pointer to a null-terminated string with enough space allocated to contain src plus num characters.

src

Null-terminated string containing characters to be appended.

num

Number of characters to be appended from src to dest.

Return Value.
dest is returned.

Portability.
Defined in ANSI-C.

Example.

/* strncat example */#include #include 

int main (){  char str1[20];  char str2[20];  strcpy (str1,"To be ");  strcpy (str2,"or not to be");  strncat (str1, str2, 6);  puts (str1);  return 0;}

Output:

To be or not