The
stpcpy()
function copies the string pointed to by src
(including the terminating aq\0aq character) to the array pointed to by
dest.
The strings may not overlap, and the destination string
dest must be large enough to receive the copy.
RETURN VALUE
stpcpy()
returns a pointer to the end of the string
dest (that is, the address of the terminating null byte)
rather than the beginning.
CONFORMING TO
This function is not part of the C or POSIX.1 standards, and is
not customary on Unix systems, but is not a GNU invention either.
Perhaps it comes from MS-DOS.
EXAMPLE
For example, this program uses
stpcpy()
to concatenate foo and
bar to produce foobar, which it then prints.
#include <string.h>
int
main (void)
{
char *to = buffer;
to = stpcpy(to, "foo");
to = stpcpy(to, "bar");
printf("%s\n", buffer);
}
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