---
name: "ustrcat"
section: "3alleg4"
platform: "linux"
package: "allegro4-doc"
version: "2:4.4.3.1-5"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/ustrcat/3alleg4"
---

# ustrcat(3alleg4)

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**(3alleg4), **ustrzcat**(3alleg4), **ustrncat**(3alleg4), **exunicod**(3alleg4)