ustrncpy(3) - Linux man page

Name

ustrncpy - Copies a string into another one, specifying size. Allegro game programming library.

Synopsis

#include <allegro.h>

char *ustrncpy(char *dest, const char *src, int n);

Description

This function is like ustrcpy() except that no more than 'n' characters from 'src' are copied into 'dest'. If 'src' is shorter than 'n' characters, null characters are appended to 'dest' as padding until 'n' characters have been written.

Note that if 'src' is longer than 'n' characters, 'dest' will not be null-terminated.

Return Value

The return value is the value of 'dest'.

See Also

uconvert(3), ustrcpy(3), ustrzncpy(3)

Referenced By

ustrtok(3)