strcpy

[Dave Sill]

In article <90 at hropus.UUCP> John Young <hropus!jgy> writes:
>If the "contents of the destination string past the null character"
>are not guaranteed why would anyone use strcpy()? 

Well, at the risk of sounding flippant, one would use strcpy() to make
a copy of a string.  I personally don't use strcpy() for any other
reason, and I don't see how writing past the null but within the
bounds of the destination array would preclude this.

[In a previous posting I retracted my statement that strcpy() could
write something past the null in the destination string.]

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