The string literal is also null terminated so the 8th character copied will be correct.
-----Original Message----- From: Patrick Roehl [mailto:snip] Sent: Monday, September 08, 2008 11:47 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: question for C experts - strcpy vs memcpy strcpy and memcpy do different things. Remember that C strings are null-terminated. strcpy(dest,"LITERAL") will move 8 bytes (7 for the literal plus the terminator). memcpy(dest,"LITERAL",8) will try to move 8 bytes, but what you get after "LITERAL" is not defined. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
