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Re: char strcat(), strcpy(), *fgets();

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From: anw
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 1988 16:19

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In article <2029@pt.cs.cmu.edu> jgk@speech2.cs.cmu.edu (Joe Keane) writes:
>To be useful, strcpy and strcat should return the end of the new
>string.

	If it has to be one or t'other, don't forget that the way C works
it is easier to find the end of a string given its beginning than to find
its beginning given its end.

-- 
Andy Walker, Maths Dept., Nott'm Univ., UK
anw@maths.nott.ac.uk

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Subject: Re: char *strcat(), *strcpy(), *fgets();
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