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From: decot@hpisod2.HP.COM (Dave Decot)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: modification of strings
Message-ID: <2550084@hpisod2.HP.COM>
Date: 21 Feb 89 14:25:17 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino
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Note, however, that:

	static char blah[20] = "meow";
	char *tmp;

	tmp = strcpy(blah, "grr, snarl, hiss");

works nicely, because enough space is allocated to hold the longer value,
and the space is guaranteed to be writable.

Dave