How do I concatenate two strings in C?

Question

How do I add two strings?

I tried name = \"derp\" + \"herp\";, but I got an error:

Expression must have integral or enum type

Answer 1

Without GNU extension:

#include 
#include 
#include 

int main(void) {
    const char str1[] = "First";
    const char str2[] = "Second";
    char *res;

    res = malloc(strlen(str1) + strlen(str2) + 1);
    if (!res) {
        fprintf(stderr, "malloc() failed: insufficient memory!\n");
        return EXIT_FAILURE;
    }

    strcpy(res, str1);
    strcat(res, str2);

    printf("Result: '%s'\n", res);
    free(res);
    return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}

Alternatively with GNU extension:

#define _GNU_SOURCE
#include 
#include 
#include 

int main(void) {
    const char str1[] = "First";
    const char str2[] = "Second";
    char *res;

    if (-1 == asprintf(&res, "%s%s", str1, str2)) {
        fprintf(stderr, "asprintf() failed: insufficient memory!\n");
        return EXIT_FAILURE;
    }

    printf("Result: '%s'\n", res);
    free(res);
    return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}

See malloc, free and asprintf for more details.