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From: [e-mail] (Ray Dunn)
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Subject: Re: Problem with stringcopy
Date: 8 Jan 1996 05:17:47 GMT
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In referenced article, Lawrence Kirby says...
>Morten Brun writes:
>
>>How do i do a partial stringcopy i.e. copy from a specific position
>>in a string and a certain numbers of bytes. I am looking for a
>>function like target = Stringcopy(source, startpos, length)
>
>target[0] = '\0';
>strncat(target, source+startpos, length);

...but use strncpy if you are overwriting some existing characters in
target and don't want the target string to terminate after the copied
characters.
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