memcpy is usually used to copy data structures other than strings. Use
strcpy for copying strings!!

On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 11:25 AM, Navneet Gupta <navneetn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> @Vishal, still the array str1 is also 10 bytes only, I know that memcpy
> overwrites the null character but not sure then what is the correct approach
> if i still want to use memcpy. Thoughts?
>
> On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 10:51 AM, Vishal Thanki <vishaltha...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> you are overwriting terminating null char!!
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 10:23 AM, rShetty <rajeevr...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > #include<stdio.h>
>> > #include<string.h>
>> > int main()
>> > {
>> >  char str[]="This is rajeev\n";
>> >  char str1[10];
>> >  memset(str,'0',4);
>> >  printf("%s",str);
>> >  memcpy(str1,str,10);
>> >  printf("\n this is string 1\n");
>> >  printf("%s\n",str1);
>> >  return 0;
>> > }
>> >
>> > Output is :
>> >
>> > 0000 is rajeev
>> >
>> >  this is string 1
>> > 0000 is ra0000 is rajeev
>> >
>> >
>> > it copies 10 characters from str to str1 so the printing 0000 is ra is
>> > Ok what abt the repeating result?
>> >
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