In this article, we will unveil the various ways of performing string concatenation in the C++ language. This method can be used for various purposes while programming. But in general, the concept is the same as combining two strings from different locations and placing them together.
The following techniques can be taken into consideration while concatenating strings in C++:
C++ '+' operator
can be used to concatenate two strings easily.
The ‘+’ operator adds the two input strings and returns a new string that contains the concatenated string.
Syntax:
string1 + string2;
Example:
#include <bits/stdc++.h>
using namespace std;
int main()
{ string str1="", str2="";
cout<<"Enter String 1:\n";
cin>>str1;
cout<<"Enter String 2:\n";
cin>>str2;
string res = str1 + str2;
cout<<"Concatenated String:"<<endl;
cout<<res;
return 0;
}
Output:
Enter String 1:
Journal
Enter String 2:
Dev
Concatenated String:
JournalDev
C++ has a built-in method to concatenate strings. The strcat()
method is used to concatenate strings in C++.
The strcat() function takes char array as input and then concatenates the input values passed to the function.
Syntax:
strcat(char *array1, char *array2)
Example 1:
#include <bits/stdc++.h>
using namespace std;
int main()
{
char str1[100] = "Journal";
char str2[100]= "Dev";
cout<<"Concatenated String:"<<endl;
strcat(str1, str2);
cout<<str1;
return 0;
}
In the above example, we have declared two char arrays mainly str1 and str2 of size 100 characters. Then, we have passed the char array str1 and str2 to the strcat() function to get the concatenated string as a result.
Output:
Concatenated String:
JournalDev
Example 2:
#include <bits/stdc++.h>
using namespace std;
int main()
{
char str1[100], str2[100];
cout << "Enter String 1:\n";
cin.getline(str1, 100);
cout << "Enter String 2:\n";
cin.getline(str2, 100);
cout<<"Concatenated String:"<<endl;
strcat(str1, str2);
cout<<str1;
return 0;
}
In the above example, we accept string input values from the user using the getline()
function of C++ which fetches the input from the terminal character by character.
Output:
Enter String 1:
JournalDev-
Enter String 2:
Python
Concatenated String:
JournalDev-Python
C++ has another built-in method: append() to concatenate strings. The append()
method can be used to add strings together. It takes a string as a parameter and adds it to the end of the other string object.
Syntax:
string1.append(string2);
Example:
#include <bits/stdc++.h>
using namespace std;
int main()
{ string str1="", str2="";
cout<<"Enter String 1:\n";
cin>>str1;
cout<<"Enter String 2:\n";
cin>>str2;
str1.append(str2);
cout<<"Concatenated String:"<<endl;
cout<<str1;
return 0;
}
In the above example, we have passed str2 as a parameter to the append() function. Further, the append() functions add the contents of the string object str2 to the end of the contents of string object str1. Thus, serving the purpose of string concatenation.
Output:
Enter String 1:
Journal
Enter String 2:
Dev
Concatenated String:
JournalDev
In order to concatenate strings, we can use C++ for loops to serve the purpose without the need of any in-built function.
Example:
#include<iostream>
#include<string.h>
using namespace std;
int main()
{
char x[100]="Journal", y[100]="Dev";
cout<<"String 1:\n";
cout<<x<<endl;
cout<<"String 2:\n";
cout<<y<<endl;
int p;
for(p=0; x[p] != '\0'; p++);//pointing to the index of the last character of x
for(int q=0; y[q] != '\0'; q++,p++)
{
x[p]=y[q];
}
x[p]='\0';
cout<<"Concatenated String:\n";
cout<<x<<endl;
return 0;
}
In the above snippet of code, we have accepted two char array inputs mainly: x and y, respectively.
Further, we have traversed through the string of x char array till the pointer variable p points to the index of the last character of x.
Then, we traverse through the character input of char array y and concatenate each character of y to x.
In the end, we add a null character ('\0')
to the end of the char array x which now contains the concatenated string as a result.
Output:
String 1:
Journal
String 2:
Dev
Concatenated String:
JournalDev
Thus, in this article, we have understood the various techniques to concatenate strings in the C++ language.
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