joining two strings in C

[jobs]

strcpy(buf, "my_id_%d_",i)
strcpy(buf1, "my_com_id_%d", j)

First I want to place value of i into "my_id_1" like so and copy to buf. And do the same thing in second line the code. Now I want to join both buf and buf1 so it will give me a new string "my_id_1_my_com_id_2".

How do you do this kind of stuff and joining two strings in C?

[Aia]

strcpy() is not like printf() that accepts a format specifier as a parameter.
You need to convert the integer into a string before trying to add it to the final buffer.
Search for the function sprintf to do that.

[kv79]

Hi ,can you try

sprintf( Bufnew, "%s%s", buf,buf1);

[Aia]

According to the prototype of sprintf:

int sprintf ( char * str, const char * format, ... );

you can.

[arunpawar]

string concatination can b used if uwant.it works with most old borkland compilers.

[ssharish2005]

What you are after is something smilier to this.

char Buffer[20];
int count = 10;

sprintf(Buffer, "my_id_%d_", count);

To be more safer on hand use snprintf, if you are worried about overflow and all. Do the same for your send concatenation.

The above is just an sample code which would give you an idea on how to use sprintf. You will have change the variables to get used in you program.

EDIT:
And to achive what you want, either you will have to call sprintf twice or you will have use the combinaton of strcat and sprintf function calls. Like

sprintf(Buffer, "my_id_%d_", count);
 count += 10;
 sprintf(FinalStr, "%smy_com_id_%d", Buffer, count);

ssharish