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From: sullivan@aqdata.uucp (Michael T. Sullivan)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: strncpy
Message-ID: <1989Dec22.172409.14372@aqdata.uucp>
Date: 22 Dec 89 17:24:09 GMT
References: <11510@csli.Stanford.EDU>
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From article <11510@csli.Stanford.EDU>, by poser@csli.Stanford.EDU (Bill Poser):
> 
> I have also been told that it is useful for copying into fixed length
> char arrays which are not intended to be null-terminated when full.
> I am aware of such string representations, but those aren't the standard
> C string representation and so the question arises as to why the
> standard string library should include a function that doesn't fit the
> usual representation of strings.

Isn't it nice that there IS a function that handles the non-standard case.
I think your question really should be why doesn't the standard library
include a function that does a null terminated strncpy.
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