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| DATE | 2005-01-25 |
| FROM | James Linder
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| SUBJECT | Re: [hangout] Simple C question
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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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