Copy one character array to another.

This function is compatible with the following targets:

ANSI

BeOS

EMB/RTOS

Mac OS

Palm OS

Win32

#include <string.h>

char *strcpy(char  *dest, const char *source);

Parameters for this facility are:

dest	char *	The destination string
source	const char *	The string being copied

The strcpy() function copies the character array pointed to by source to the character array pointed to dest. The source argument must point to a null terminated character array. The resulting character array at dest is null terminated as well.

If the arrays pointed to by dest and source overlap, the operation of strcpy() is undefined.

strcpy() returns the value of dest.

"memcpy"

"memmove"

"strncpy"

#include <string.h>
#include <stdio.h>

int main(void)
{
	char d[30] = "";
	static char s[] = "Metrowerks";
	
	printf(" s=%s\n d=%s\n", s, d);
	strcpy(d, s);
	printf(" s=%s\n d=%s\n", s, d);

	return 0;
}
Output:
 s=Metrowerks
 d=
 s=Metrowerks
 d=Metrowerks





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