Originally posted by GuyPerfect

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You can usually get away with doing something like this:

#include 

#include 



int main() {

    // Two halves of sentence

    char String1[50] = "This is a ";

    char String2[25] = "complete sentence.";



    // Concatenation: String1 + String2 -> String1

    strcat(String1, String2);



    // Output

    printf("The new string: %s\n", String1);

    return 0;

}

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EDIT:
Of course, the program there will work in C++ and C alike. I recommend you do C for the kind of programming you're going to be doing.

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Originally posted by GuyPerfect

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Originally posted by HyperHacker

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Of course, if your string is less than 256 bytes, this is wasteful [...]

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I'm sure most modern computers can spare a hundred extra bytes for a string.

Originally posted by HyperHacker

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C doesn't do any bounds checking, so you can go right on ahead and do something stupid like [...]

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Well, that's... rudimentary, to say the least. Treeki, what's your level of proficiency so far?

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Originally posted by GuyPerfect

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Okay, then. Keep in mind what HyperHacker said: arrays in C are not bounds checked, which means ArrVar[-1] and ArrVar[UpperBound + 3] are both allowed.

The code that you used is compatible with C for the most part, but C++ allows a few things that C does not.

• The bool data type is not native to C. You can use it, however, by #defining bool as char, false as 0 and true as 1.
  
• C89, which is the version MSVC++ compiles .c files with, requires variables to be declared in the function before any statements are made. I recommend doing this anyway, as it keeps all the declarations in one place so people don't go "Wait, where did that variable come from?"

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