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From: rkl@cbnewsh.ATT.COM (kevin.laux)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: strncpy question
Message-ID: <545@cbnewsh.ATT.COM>
Date: 11 May 89 15:58:06 GMT
References: <630@babbage.acc.virginia.edu>
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Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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In article <630@babbage.acc.virginia.edu>, pts@watt.acc.Virginia.EDU (Paul T. Shannon) writes:
} I have a question on the strncpy library function. (The same question applies to
} strcpy as well.) This program fragment seems to be the recommended usage:
} 
	[deleted fragment]
}
} Why is this function written so that the pointer to the destination string is 
} both
}        1. passed as  an argument to the function, and
}        2. returned by the function?
} 

	The return of the destination pointer allows for the function to be
passed as an argument to other functions, as in:

	printf ("<format...> %s\n", <args>, strncpy (dest, src, count));

--rkl