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In <1995Aug15.121547.11587@friend.kastle.com> rich@kastle.com (Richard Krehbiel) writes:
>Are we wishing for new standard library functions?  I have some string
>library peeves that new functions would satisfy nicely:

Me too.  Does anyone use the fact that strcpy returns the first argument?

Invariably, when I want strcpy to return something, I want it to return
a pointer the '\0' at the end of the destination string it's just written.
I end up having to either "know" the length of the string, or use strlen
on the result to find the end, or use my own strcpy which returns a more
useful thing.

I realize that people *do* use the existing of strcpy in macros and so on,
but it's hardly generally useful.

Ideally strcpy could be updated to the new behaviour, and all the code
which depends on the old code will magically fix itself.  I guess in the
absence of such sufficiently advanced technology, it could only be fixed
with a new function, which is hardly appealing.

	J