char *strcat(), *strcpy(), *fgets();

Phil Hughes fyl at ssc.UUCP
Sat Jun 25 06:16:12 AEST 1988


In article <1309 at ark.cs.vu.nl>, maart at cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath) writes:
> Why do the functions named above return 'char *', instead of 'int', viz. the
> REALLY useful new size of the first argument string, or the number of chars
> moved?

So you can say
	perror(strcat(message," more message"));

or, something like that.




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