Need to concatenate two strings with NULL characters

PrafullaVedante asked:

Hi,

I am trying to develop a database migration utility.
I am using following function to create DSN.

SQLConfigDataSource(NULL, ODBC_ADD_DSN,"SQL Server",ss)

Last parameter of this fucntion is a connection string. It is of data type LPCSTR.
This function expects NULL character as a seperator.

In short it expects the string in following format.
"ExpTempSQL\0SERVER=(local)\0Trusted_Connection=yes\0\0"

If you notice there are NULL characters (\0) in between. Due to this i am not able to create this string dynamically as strcat function cannot concatenate the string with NULL characters, It skips the string beyond NULL(which is i think the correct behavior).

Help of any sort in this regard will be highly appreciated.

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