Ampersand character in strings to be concatenated

[hopgal]

I want to create a string using strcat, problem is it will contain the ampersand character. How do you handle special characters like this using the string manipulation functions?

Here is my code that is failing on the last line with a memory access violation (I think because & is used in de-referencing pointers):

if (count > 0){//create string to accept AGs
s1= "AcceptStatus0=Y";
lr_output_message("s1 is: %s", s1);
s2 = "&AcceptStatus";
lr_output_message("s2 is: %s", s2);//OK so far
strcat(s1,s2);//fails here
}

 

[AceRimmer]

The problem is probably due to the size of the char array s1 not being large enough to contain the concatenated strings.

The ampersand has no special meaning inside a string, its just like any other character. Try out the following code:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>

int main() {
char s1[255];
char s2[30];

strcpy(s1, &quot;Wallace &quot;
strcpy(s2, &quot;& Grommett&quot;

strcat(s1, s2);

printf(&quot;s1 is %s&quot;, s1);

return 0;
}

 

[hopgal]

Yes, that was it. It wasn't the ampersand at all. I am more used to using Strings in Java, which is much easier! Thanks for your help.