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

        /* This program concatenates two wide-
 character strings using   */
        /* the wcsncat function, and then manually compares the result  */
        /* to the expected result                                       */

        #define S1LENGTH 10
        #define S2LENGTH 8
        #define SIZE     3

        main()
        {
            int i;
            wchar_t s1buf[S1LENGTH + S2LENGTH];
            wchar_t s2buf[S2LENGTH];
            wchar_t test1[S1LENGTH + S2LENGTH];

            /* Initialize the three wide-character strings */

            if (mbstowcs(s1buf, "abcmnexyz", S1LENGTH) == (size_t)-1) {

                perror("mbstowcs");
                exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
            }

            if (mbstowcs(s2buf, " orthis", S2LENGTH) == (size_t)-1) {

                perror("mbstowcs");
                exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
            }

            if (mbstowcs(test1, "abcmnexyz orthis", S1LENGTH + SIZE)

                perror("mbstowcs");
                exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
            }

        /* Concatenate s1buf with SIZE characters from s2buf, */
        /* placing the result into s1buf. Then compare s1buf  */
        /* with the expected result in test1.                 */

            wcsncat(s1buf, s2buf, SIZE);

            for (i = 0; i <= S1LENGTH + SIZE - 2; i++) {
                /* Check that each character is correct */
                if (test1[i] != s1buf[i]) {
                    printf("Error in wcsncat\n");
                    exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
                }

            }

            printf("Concatenated string: <%S>\n", s1buf);
        }

      Running the example produces the following result:

        Concatenated string: <abcmnexyz or>