char *strcat(), *strcpy(), *fgets();
Doug Gwyn
gwyn at brl-smoke.ARPA
Fri Jun 24 04:07:34 AEST 1988
In article <1309 at ark.cs.vu.nl> maart at cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath) writes:
>Why do the functions named above return 'char *', instead of 'int', viz. the
>REALLY useful new size of the first argument string, or the number of chars
>moved?
"Historical reasons."
>Will this feature ever be changed?
No. That would break a large number of existing correctly-written programs.
>One gets() tired of typing '(void) strcpy(buf, str);'.
Oh, I don't know about that. Here is a real example from source code
I happened to have open in another layer on my terminal:
(void)strcat(strcat(strcat(strcat(strcat(strcpy(fn,
TargetDir
),
target
),
Slash
),
approx
),
Slash
),
CCMAP
);
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