Clear the contents of a block of memory.

This function is compatible with the following targets:

ANSI

BeOS

EMB/RTOS

Mac OS

Palm OS

Win32

#include <string.h>

void *memset(void *dest, int c, size_t n);

Parameters for this facility are:

dest	void *	The destination memory
c	int	The char to set
n	size_t	The maximum length to set

The memset() function assigns c to the first n characters of the item pointed to by dest.

memset() returns the value of dest.

Refer to  "Example of memchr() usage." .