strncpy Questions

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I'm unpacking several structs that contain 's' type fields from C. The fields contain zero-padded UTF-8 strings handled by strncpy in the C code (note this function's vestigial behaviour). If I dec...
Theurer asked 22/2, 2011 at 4:36

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Edit: I've added the source for the example. I came across this example: char source[MAX] = "123456789"; char source1[MAX] = "123456789"; char destination[MAX] = "abcdefg"; char destination1[MAX]...
Pga asked 11/8, 2009 at 5:17

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How can I access s[7] in s? I didn't observe any difference between strncpy and memcpy. If I want to print the output s, along with s[7] (like qwertyA), what are the changes I have to made in the f...
Ibert asked 4/1, 2011 at 13:6

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I understand that strlcpy and strlcat were designed as secure replacements for strncpy and strncat. However, some people are still of the opinion that they are insecure, and simply cause a differen...
Sweetener asked 22/1, 2010 at 4:13

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I am using the code below char call[64] = {'\0'} /* clean buffer */ strncpy(call, info.called, sizeof(call)); I always use the sizeof for the destination for protecting a overflow, incase source...
Couch asked 24/7, 2009 at 9:58

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I can see many sprintf's used in my applications for copying a string. I have a character array: char myarray[10]; const char *str = "mystring"; Now if I want want to copy the string str into m...
Thermistor asked 5/9, 2012 at 6:6

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how would you get the last word of a string, starting from the '\0' newline character to the rightmost space? For example, I could have something like this where str could be assigned a string: ch...
Maxa asked 9/2, 2012 at 22:34

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I know strncpy is a safer version of strcpy as said here. However, when I want to copy from src to dst and dst is not a clean buffer, I get unwanted results, which can be avoided by strcpy: char ...
Hagy asked 6/9, 2018 at 15:11

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I am looking to find out why strncpy is considered insecure. Does anybody have any sort of documentation on this or examples of an exploit using it?
Drysalter asked 15/5, 2009 at 17:16

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The function strncpy() doesn't always null terminate so I want to know what is the best alternative that always null terminates? I want a function that if: strlen(src) >= n /*n is the number of...
Catherine asked 26/1, 2017 at 8:55

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what should I use when I want to copy src_str to dst_arr and why? char dst_arr[10]; char *src_str = "hello"; PS: my head is spinning faster than the disk of my computer after reading a lot of t...
Pantia asked 8/8, 2011 at 19:4

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At the following regarding strncpy: http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/clibrary/cstring/strncpy/, it mentions the following: No null-character is implicitly appended to the end of destination, s...
Myramyrah asked 22/1, 2011 at 14:8

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Is there an exact equivalent to strncpy in the C++ Standard Library? I mean a function, that copies a string from one buffer to another until it hits the terminating 0? For instance when I have to ...
Strong asked 16/1, 2012 at 19:29

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I'm wondering if there's a cleaner and more efficient way of doing the following strncpy considering a max amount of chars. I feel like am overdoing it. int main(void) { char *string = "hello wo...
Manhole asked 3/5, 2012 at 4:27

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I have the following sample code that mimics the code in the application. #include <iostream> #include <string.h> #include <cstring> #include <atlstr.h> using namespace std...
Mechanotherapy asked 6/12, 2014 at 11:0

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I find it hard to believe I'm the first person to run into this problem but searched for quite some time and didn't find a solution to this. I'd like to use strncpy but have it be UTF8 aware so it ...
Euchre asked 8/9, 2011 at 7:39

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What is the significant difference between memcpy() and strncpy()? I ask this because we can easily alter strncpy() to copy any type of data we want, not just characters, simply by casting the firs...
Campanology asked 14/5, 2013 at 21:36

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I am just messing around with strncpy. My program looks like this typedef struct { char from_str[10]; }test; main () { test s1; memset(&s1,0,sizeof(test)); char src[10]="himansh"; cha...
Broadbrim asked 28/12, 2012 at 6:12

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I am trying to use strncpy to only copy part of a string to another string in C. Such as: c[] = "How the heck do I do this"; Then copy "do this" to the other string, such that: d[] = "do this...
Jewelfish asked 20/9, 2012 at 0:27

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I have been chasing this bug around, and I just don't get it. Have I forgotten some basic C or something? ==28357== Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised value(s) ==28357== at 0x4C261E...
Durward asked 30/1, 2010 at 6:8

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strncpy() supposedly protects from buffer overflows. But if it prevents an overflow without null terminating, in all likelihood a subsequent string operation is going to overflow. So to protect aga...
Timbering asked 21/9, 2009 at 10:38
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