Write a Program to merge two strings or concatenation of strings

String concatenation in C

C program to concatenate two strings, for example, if the two input strings are "C programming," and " language" (note the space before language), then the output will be "C programming language." To concatenate the strings, we use strcat function of string.h, to concatenate without using the library function, see another program below.

C concatenate string program

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

int main()
{
  char a[1000], b[1000];

  printf("Enter the first string\n");
  gets(a);

  printf("Enter the second string\n");
  gets(b);

  strcat(a, b);

  printf("String obtained on concatenation: %s\n", a);

  return 0;
}

Concatenate strings without strcat function

C program to concatenate strings without using library function strcat of string.h header file. We create our own function.

#include <stdio.h>

void concatenate(char [], char []);

int main()
{
   char p[100], q[100];

   printf("Input a string\n");
   gets(p);

   printf("Input a string to concatenate\n");
   gets(q);

   concatenate(p, q);

   printf("String obtained on concatenation: \"%s\"\n", p);

   return 0;
}

void concatenate(char p[], char q[]) {
   int c, d;
 
   c = 0;

   while (p[c] != '\0') {
      c++;    
   }

   d = 0;

   while (q[d] != '\0') {
      p[c] = q[d];
      d++;
      c++;  
   }

   p[c] = '\0';
}

The first for loop in concatenate function is calculating string length, you can also use strlen function if you wish.

String concatenation using pointers

#include<stdio.h>

#include<conio.h>

void concatenate_string(char*, char*);

int main()
{
    char original[100], add[100];
 
    printf("Enter source string\n");
    gets(original);
 
    printf("Enter string to concatenate\n");
    gets(add);
 
    concatenate_string(original, add);
 
    printf("String after concatenation: \"%s\"\n", original);
     
    return 0;

    getch();
}

void concatenate_string(char *original, char *add)
{
   while(*original)
      original++;
   
   while(*add)
   {
      *original = *add;
      add++;
      original++;
   }
   *original = '\0';
}