From: ao950 AT FreeNet DOT Carleton DOT CA (Paul Derbyshire)
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Subject: Re: Help with strings MID$?
Date: 3 Sep 1997 06:01:20 GMT
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Andrew Deren (aderen AT eecs DOT uic DOT edu) writes:
> But where are you going to copy it to?
> mid3 is just a pointer pointint somewhere to your memory. if you want
> to use strncpy you first have to allocate memory for mid3.

Setting mid3=mystring+4 points mid3 at memory just past mystring. This
will work for strcat/strcpy so long as mystring is itself allocated,
points to a zero-terminated string and has 4 or more characters (so the
null is at or past mid3). So will strncat and strncpy, since they copy UP
TO 'n' characters, less if they find a null first.

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