Re: strcat and three strings

alternativa <alternativa.4@xxxxx> wrote:
> I have a following problem: I'm creating a list and one of the fields
> should contain the date. Firstly I ask the user for the year, month and
> day and then I'd like to collect all this data in one field. To do this
> I tried to concatenate those 3 numbers into one using strcat. A piece
> of code is as follows
>
[...]
>
> I think the result should be "year-month-day".. Why it doesn't work?

My first suggestion is that you did not allocate any space for your
data, you only defined the pointers. Please post a complete program
instead of only a snippet.

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