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- From: rbutterw@math.uwaterloo.ca (Ray Butterworth [MFCF])
- Subject: Re: definition of strNcpy
- Message-ID: <BzMGp3.Hwr@math.uwaterloo.ca>
- Organization: Math Faculty Computing Facility, University of Waterloo
- References: <1992Dec18.015228.6094@dms.agames.com> <1992Dec18.180358.24428@dms.agames.com>
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 18:29:26 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec18.180358.24428@dms.agames.com> lipson@dms.agames.com (Pete Lipson) writes:
- >Pete Lipson (lipson@dms.agames.com) wrote:
- >: i was just badly bitten by my interpretation of how strncpy works.
- > ... of course i meant strnCAT ^^^
-
- As an aside, does anyone ever actually use strncat?
- i.e. what is its intended use?
-
- If the "N" were the total length of the data including what is already
- in the string, it might be useful. But as it is, one has to do
- something like:
- strncat(out, in, sizeof(out)-strlen(out)-1);
- i.e. as long as one has to call strlen on the first argument,
- what is the point of having strncat go through the trouble of
- finding the end of the string again?
-