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

Concatenate Strings

Concatenating any two strings in C can be done in atleast 3 ways :-

1) By copying string 2 to the end of string 1

#include 
#include 
#define MAX 100
int main()
{
  char str1[MAX],str2[MAX];
  int i,j=0;
  printf("Input string 1: ");
  gets(str1);
  printf("\nInput string 2: ");
  gets(str2);
  for(i=strlen(str1);str2[j]!='\0';i++)  //Copying string 2 to the end of string 1
  {
     str1[i]=str2[j];
     j++;
  }
  str1[i]='\0';
  printf("\nConcatenated string: ");
  puts(str1);
  return 0;
}

2) By copying string 1 and string 2 to string 3

#include 
#include 
#define MAX 100
int main()
{
  char str1[MAX],str2[MAX],str3[MAX];
  int i,j=0,count=0;
  printf("Input string 1: ");
  gets(str1);
  printf("\nInput string 2: ");
  gets(str2);
  for(i=0;str1[i]!='\0';i++)          //Copying string 1 to string 3
  {
    str3[i]=str1[i];
    count++;
  }
  for(i=count;str2[j]!='\0';i++)     //Copying string 2 to the end of string 3
  {
    str3[i]=str2[j];
    j++;
  }
  str3[i]='\0';
  printf("\nConcatenated string : ");
  puts(str3);
  return 0;
}

3) By using strcat() function

#include 
#include 
#define MAX 100
int main()
{
  char str1[MAX],str2[MAX];
  printf("Input string 1: ");
  gets(str1);
  printf("\nInput string 2: ");
  gets(str2);
  strcat(str1,str2);                    //strcat() function
  printf("\nConcatenated string : ");
  puts(str1);
  return 0;
}