Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong?

[Christopher R. Hertel]

> >>>>> "CRH" == Christopher R Hertel <crh at nts.umn.edu> writes:
> CRH> The strncpy() copy function is *dangerous* because it does not guarantee
> CRH> that the target string will be NUL-terminated.  You should always do this: 
> CRH>   strncpy( target, source, strlen(source) + 1 );
> 
> 1) You mean :
> 
> target[GETTING_SIZEOF_ TARGET_SOMEHOW( target ) - 1]	= '\0';
> strncpy( target, source, GETTING_SIZEOF_ TARGET_SOMEHOW( target ) - 1 );
> 
> is the safer way.
> # simply getting 'strlen(source)+1' means it's same as strcpy().

You are correct.  I was thinking, however, that since constants were 
being used this would not be required.  You are also correct, though, 
that using a strcpy() would be the same.

Chris -)-----

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