---
name: "ustrcat"
section: "3alleg"
platform: "linux"
package: "liballegro-doc"
version: "2:4.2.2-2.2"
release: "Debian 6.0 (Squeeze)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/ustrcat"
---

# ustrcat(3alleg)

Concatenates a string to another one. Allegro game programming library.

## NAME

ustrcat - Concatenates a string to another one. Allegro game programming library.

## SYNOPSIS

**#include \<allegro.h\>**

**char \*ustrcat(char \*dest, const char \*src);**

## DESCRIPTION

This function concatenates \`src' to the end of \`dest\`'. You should try to avoid this function because it is very easy to overflow the destination buffer, use ustrzcat instead.

## RETURN VALUE

Returns the value of \`dest'.

## SEE ALSO

[**uconvert**(3alleg)](/uconvert/3alleg.md), [**ustrzcat**(3alleg)](/ustrzcat/3alleg.md), [**ustrncat**(3alleg)](/ustrncat/3alleg.md), [**exunicod**(3alleg)](/exunicod/3alleg.md)