How do I concatenate const/literal strings in C?

Question

I\'m working in C, and I have to concatenate a few things.

Right now I have this:

message = strcat(\"TEXT \", var);

message2 = strcat(strcat(\"TEXT          


        

Answer 1

Folks, use strncpy(), strncat(), or snprintf().
Exceeding your buffer space will trash whatever else follows in memory!
(And remember to allow space for the trailing null '\0' character!)