const char* concatenation

Question

I need to concatenate two const chars like these:

const char *one = \"Hello \";
const char *two = \"World\";

How might I go about doing tha

Answer 1

You can use strstream. It's formally deprecated, but it's still a great tool if you need to work with C strings, i think.

char result[100]; // max size 100
std::ostrstream s(result, sizeof result - 1);

s << one << two << std::ends;
result[99] = '\0';

This will write one and then two into the stream, and append a terminating \0 using std::ends. In case both strings could end up writing exactly 99 characters - so no space would be left writing \0 - we write one manually at the last position.