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- From: lipson@dms.agames.com (Pete Lipson)
- Newsgroups: comp.std.c
- Subject: definition of strNcpy
- Message-ID: <1992Dec18.015228.6094@dms.agames.com>
- Date: 18 Dec 92 01:52:28 GMT
- Organization: Atari Games Corporation
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- i was just badly bitten by my interpretation of how strncpy works.
- The MAN page for it IMPLIES that it works this way; is the standard this
- ambiguous too?
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- if you say: strncpy(dst,"abcdef",4)
-
- does the standard really say you get five characters appended to the
- dst (the chars 'a' 'b' 'c' 'd' AND the '\0') ???
- the man-page says it moves AT MOST the count (4 in this case) characters
- but it ALSO says it returns a pointer to a NULL-TERMINATED result.
-
- I would have assumed in that case that you would have to move at most
- 3 non-null characters!
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