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rich@kastle.com writes:
> *Not* *once* have I found the library implementations of these two
> functions adequate.  Every time I've used them I've had to augment,
> with delimiter-placement code after strncpy, and extra length
> calculations with strncat.

Note that if your intention is merely to copy up to some number of
characters and place a null character after them, then calling strncpy()
and placing a null character does more work than you need.  Since it
zero-fills, it's like using calloc() when malloc() would do.

The way to avoid this is to place a null character at the *start* of
the destination, then use strncat().

	#define STRNCPY(d,s,n) (*(d) = '\0', strncat((d), (s), (n)-1))

					/* -1 assuming that you want to
				 	write at must n bytes altogether */
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SoftQuad Inc., Toronto        is always right"           -- Michael DeCorte

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