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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 null wide character (Laq\0aq).

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.

Attributes

Multithreading (see pthreads(7) )

The wcsncat() function is thread-safe.

Conforming to

C99.

See Also

strncat(3) , wcscat(3)

Colophon

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