strncpy

[Michael T. Sullivan]

>From article <11510 at csli.Stanford.EDU>, by poser at csli.Stanford.EDU (Bill Poser):
> 
> I have also been told that it is useful for copying into fixed length
> char arrays which are not intended to be null-terminated when full.
> I am aware of such string representations, but those aren't the standard
> C string representation and so the question arises as to why the
> standard string library should include a function that doesn't fit the
> usual representation of strings.

Isn't it nice that there IS a function that handles the non-standard case.
I think your question really should be why doesn't the standard library
include a function that does a null terminated strncpy.
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