Copy the contents of a char*-string into another, the contents of s2 will be copied into s1.

Copy the contents of a char*-string into another, the contents of s2 will be copied into s1. Only a specified maximum number of characters are copied. The concluding 0 is automatically appended to the end of the string. The target string s1 must be long enough to accommodate the second string s2.

• If s2 is longer than n characters , only n characters are cpoied.
  
• If s2 shorter than n characters, zero bytes are padded.
  
• 0 will be written to position n.

Name	Type	Default	Description
Return	Pointer to the target string s1
s1	char*	-	Target string
s2	char*	-	Original string
len	int	-	Maximum number of characters that are to be copied. The values doesn#t reflect the number of available byzes but the maximum length of the result.

The example appends the contents of a string, the length of which can vary to a maximum of 4 characters, to the string s1.

char		s1[5];
char	*	s2	= alloc (1000);

...s2 will be loaded

strncat (s1, s2, 4);

Since

Version 1.2.1 (12 September 2005)

Available

priint:comet InDesign^® Plug-Ins, comet_pdf, Illustrator

See Also

strcpy
strcat
strncat

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