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Help appending a text with a period variable to another variable. (rfb)

I need to append a peice of text with periods in it to the IDC_VAR variable.
if IDC_VAR ends up being
"My house is" {without the " quotes }

I want to append
"big. Wow!" {without the " quotes }
to the end (just an example)

Original
varName.replaceBuf(rfb::strDup(rfb::CStr(getItemString(IDC_VAR))));

One of my non-working versions
varName.replaceBuf(rfb::strDup(rfb::CStr((getItemString(IDC_VAR))+"big.")));

Another of my non-working versions
char* duh = "big.";
varName.replaceBuf(rfb::strDup(rfb::CStr((getItemString(IDC_VAR))+duh)));

I dont think the + is going to work for a text variable.
Thanks guys. (of course it doesnt have to be 'house' ;)

beryl666

i don't understand what you mean? is it in c++? why don't you use copy both text into string type then use string to append or + together then write it back to original place? is it easier?

James Goethe

ASKER

it is c++
i need to append some text to the end of IDC_VAR with some punctuation
lets say IDC_VAR = "Programming is"

i need this string
varName.replaceBuf(rfb::strDup(rfb::CStr(getItemString(IDC_VAR))));
to equal "Programming is fun."
its really just CStr(getItemString(IDC_VAR));
somehow i need to add some actual text to the value of IDC_VAR

thanks again

James Goethe

ASKER

Figured it out...

varName.replaceBuf(rfb::strDup(rfb::CStr(getItemString(IDC_VAR))));
strcat(varName.buf,"text with a period. See!");

Much simpler than I thought..
Thanks for the help..

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