Re: gets() and getchar

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From: halasz
Date: Sat, 19 Aug 1995 00:07

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In article <jeremy.808649850@suede.sw.oz.au>, jeremy@sw.oz.au (Jeremy Fitzhardinge) writes
: ....
: 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.

Yes indeed!  And the behavior of "memccpy", where it is, is (almost) fine.

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Subject: Re: gets() and getchar
Date: 18 Aug 1995 20:07:22 -0400
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