[Dev-C++] working with strings

[Joost v. R. <jo...@va...>]

Hi,

I am a c++ newbie and I am trying to put to strings together but I can't 
seem to figure out how to do it. My previous coding experience is in PHP 
where I found this very easy to do...

I would like to do something like this

char firstname [15];
char lastname [20];
char fullname [35] = (firstname+lastname);

...But that obviously won't work! Can somebody show me how to do such a 
thing?