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Top Forums Programming concat const char * with char * Post 302288187 by jim mcnamara on Monday 16th of February 2009 04:39:17 PM
Old 02-16-2009
You cannot strcpy( const char *buffer, char *src)

This is because you told the compiler with "const" that you promised not to alter buffer.
You will have to create a temorary char * variable then sprintf buffer + "results.txt" into the temporary char variable.

post your code and we can help.
 

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STRING(3)						     Linux Programmer's Manual							 STRING(3)

NAME
stpcpy, strcasecmp, strcat, strchr, strcmp, strcoll, strcpy, strcspn, strdup, strfry, strlen, strncat, strncmp, strncpy, strncasecmp, strp- brk, strrchr, strsep, strspn, strstr, strtok, strxfrm, index, rindex - string operations SYNOPSIS
#include <strings.h> int strcasecmp(const char *s1, const char *s2); int strncasecmp(const char *s1, const char *s2, size_t n); char *index(const char *s, int c); char *rindex(const char *s, int c); #include <string.h> char *stpcpy(char *dest, const char *src); char *strcat(char *dest, const char *src); char *strchr(const char *s, int c); int strcmp(const char *s1, const char *s2); int strcoll(const char *s1, const char *s2); char *strcpy(char *dest, const char *src); size_t strcspn(const char *s, const char *reject); char *strdup(const char *s); char *strfry(char *string); size_t strlen(const char *s); char *strncat(char *dest, const char *src, size_t n); int strncmp(const char *s1, const char *s2, size_t n); char *strncpy(char *dest, const char *src, size_t n); char *strpbrk(const char *s, const char *accept); char *strrchr(const char *s, int c); char *strsep(char **stringp, const char *delim); size_t strspn(const char *s, const char *accept); char *strstr(const char *haystack, const char *needle); char *strtok(char *s, const char *delim); size_t strxfrm(char *dest, const char *src, size_t n); DESCRIPTION
The string functions perform string operations on null-terminated strings. See the individual man pages for descriptions of each function. SEE ALSO
index(3), rindex(3), strcasecmp(3), stpcpy(3), strcat(3), strchr(3), strcmp(3), strcoll(3), strcpy(3), strcspn(3), strdup(3), strfry(3), strlen(3), strncasecmp(3), strncat(3), strncmp(3), strncpy(3), strpbrk(3), strrchr(3), strsep(3), strspn(3), strstr(3), strtok(3), strxfrm(3) COLOPHON
This page is part of release 3.27 of the Linux man-pages project. A description of the project, and information about reporting bugs, can be found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/. 2010-02-25 STRING(3)
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