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

As people pointed out string handling improved much. So you may want to learn how to use the C++ string library instead of C-style strings. However here is a solution in pure C

#include 
#include 
#include 

void appendToHello(const char *s) {
    const char *const hello = "hello ";

    const size_t sLength     = strlen(s);
    const size_t helloLength = strlen(hello);
    const size_t totalLength = sLength + helloLength;

    char *const strBuf = malloc(totalLength + 1);
    if (strBuf == NULL) {
        fprintf(stderr, "malloc failed\n");
        exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
    }

    strcpy(strBuf, hello);
    strcpy(strBuf + helloLength, s);

    puts(strBuf);

    free(strBuf);

}

int main (void) {
    appendToHello("blah blah");
    return 0;
}

I am not sure whether it is correct/safe but right now I could not find a better way to do this in ANSI C.