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Re: strcat strncat and strlen

Subject: Re: strcat strncat and strlen
From: Richard
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 04:22:28 +0200
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c

santosh <santosh.k83@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Bill Cunningham wrote:
>
>>         Strncat is supposed to be better than strcat for some reason
>>         I've read.
>
> It does something different to what it's name would suggest. We have had
> innumerable threads dealing with this topic. Just do a Google search.
>
>> Is this because of a potential buffer overflow?
>
> Well, it can be used with that aim, in which case it leaves an array of
> char instead of a string in the destination.
>
>> I have compiled properly and used strlen too and I just wonder what is
>> the need to return a strlen?
>> 
>> Has anyone used quite abit anyway the strlen function? 
>
> You are not making any sense. Are you asking why strlen exists? It
> should be obvious, even to you. How else do you find the length of a
> zero terminated string?

"even to you"???? Jesus H Christ, Santosh, cut the guy some slack.


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