simple string concatenation question

[J B 0]

Hi guys, I am trying to add double slashes in front of a string, I am wondering it can be done as below Assuming both variables have contained some characters char *FileString; // a pointer to character string char Buffer[256]; // an array to 256 characters FileString = '//' + Buffer; Please advise, Thanks alot

[Nick Parker]

Use strcat() -Nick Parker

[anju]

U can try like this. CString strFileString; CString strSlah("//"); char szBuffer[256]; strFileString=strSlash+szBuffer; regards anju anju

[Michael Dunn]

C-style strings don't work like that. You should be using std::string unless there is an overriding reason not to:

std::string FileString;
std::string Buffer = "some stuff...";

FileString = "//" + Buffer;

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[J B 0]

Thanks guys, I tried not to use std::string as I am not sure if it's portable to Embedded Visual C++. I am doing the program using Visual C++ and expecting to make it workable on iPAQ when re-compling.

[Anders Molin]

AFAIR STL is not avaliable in eMbedded Visual C++ - Anders Money talks, but all mine ever says is "Goodbye!"

[J B 0]

strcat() won't work as it accepts only constant char* , which buffer[] isn't. It crashes the program upon that point. e.g. char string[200] strcpy(string, "\\"); strcat(string, Buffer); <-- won't work here. Any suggestions? Thanks again

[Brian Shifrin]

strcpy(FileString, "//"); strcat(FileString, (char *) Buffer); Brian