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

Connecting two constant char pointer without using strcpy command in the dynamic allocation of memory:

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

char* three = new char[strlen(one) + strlen(two) + 1] {'\0'};

strcat_s(three, strlen(one) + 1, one);
strcat_s(three, strlen(one) + strlen(two) + 1, two);

cout << three << endl;

delete[] three;
three = nullptr;

Answer 2

If you are using C++, why don't you use std::string instead of C-style strings?

std::string one="Hello";
std::string two="World";

std::string three= one+two;

If you need to pass this string to a C-function, simply pass three.c_str()

Answer 3

Using std::string:

#include <string>

std::string result = std::string(one) + std::string(two);

Answer 4

One more example:

// calculate the required buffer size (also accounting for the null terminator):
int bufferSize = strlen(one) + strlen(two) + 1;

// allocate enough memory for the concatenated string:
char* concatString = new char[ bufferSize ];

// copy strings one and two over to the new buffer:
strcpy( concatString, one );
strcat( concatString, two );

...

// delete buffer:
delete[] concatString;

But unless you specifically don't want or can't use the C++ standard library, using std::string is probably safer.

Answer 5

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

string total( string(one) + two );

// to use the concatenation as const char*, use:
total.c_str()

Updated: changed string total = string(one) + string(two); to string total( string(one) + two ); for performance reasons (avoids construction of string two and temporary string total)

// string total(move(move(string(one)) + two));  // even faster?

Answer 6

First of all, you have to create some dynamic memory space. Then you can just strcat the two strings into it. Or you can use the c++ "string" class. The old-school C way:

  char* catString = malloc(strlen(one)+strlen(two)+1);
  strcpy(catString, one);
  strcat(catString, two);
  // use the string then delete it when you're done.
  free(catString);

New C++ way

  std::string three(one);
  three += two;