"Phillip Streck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:49695@palm-dev-forum...
> Does anyone know why StrNCat is defined with the last variable being
the total
> length of string, instead of being the number of characters to
append..
Because you use StrNCat when you're appending into a string in a limited
buffer where there is the chance that you might exceed the buffer
length. The N is a safety value. If you need to append just part of a
string, use a combination of StrLen and StrNCopy to get the required
effect.
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Ben Combee, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Techwood Broadcasting Foundation, Austin Bureau
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