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Top Forums Programming strcat outputs garbage Post 302424519 by airon23bball on Tuesday 25th of May 2010 12:56:53 PM
Old 05-25-2010
strcat outputs garbage

Anyone have any ideas why when using strcat function I would get some garbage at the beginning of the output string? what I'm doing is something like the following example.

Code:
Code:
char temp[32];
char tempHolder[32];

for(int i=0;i<something;i++){
sprintf(temp,"%u ", someVariable);
strcat(tempHolder,temp);
}

printf("%s\n",tempHolder);

Output:
Ao8@<the rest of my string prints after>

Last edited by jim mcnamara; 05-25-2010 at 02:39 PM..
 

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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), stpcpy(3), strcasecmp(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 3.53 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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