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From: dsill@NSWC-OAS.arpa (Dave Sill)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: strcpy
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Date: 28 Mar 88 18:47:31 GMT
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In article <90@hropus.UUCP> John Young <hropus!jgy> writes:
>If the "contents of the destination string past the null character"
>are not guaranteed why would anyone use strcpy()? 

Well, at the risk of sounding flippant, one would use strcpy() to make
a copy of a string.  I personally don't use strcpy() for any other
reason, and I don't see how writing past the null but within the
bounds of the destination array would preclude this.

[In a previous posting I retracted my statement that strcpy() could
write something past the null in the destination string.]

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