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| DATE | 2005-01-25 |
| FROM | Steve Milo
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| SUBJECT | Re: [hangout] Simple C question
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This is just one trivial reason out of many complicated ones why learning C
in a classroom setting is the right way to go. There are too many nuances
that can not be picked up without atleast some kind of formal
education or hand-holding.
Steve M
On Tue, 25 Jan 2005, James Linder wrote:
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> On Tuesday 25 January 2005 03:21 pm, Inker, Evan wrote:
> > Check this out
> >
> > strcopy.c
> >
> > ..............
> >
> >
> > If I have three strings:
> > char *str1;
> > char str2[];
> > char str3[10];
> >
> > how do I copy the info from str1 to str2?
> >
> > how do I copy the info from str1 to str3? (I imagine it is the same, and I
> > realize I will loose data if strlen(str1)>10)
>
> Watch out using strcopy for copying str1 to str3. From what I understand
> it'll keep writing after the end of the str3 array. I think there is an
> nstrcopy() function you could use too that you can tell exactly how many
> elements to copy from one char array to another.
>
> Jamey
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