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1.\" Copyright 1993 David Metcalfe (david@prism.demon.co.uk)
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25.\" Lewine's _POSIX Programmer's Guide_ (O'Reilly & Associates, 1991)
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27.\" Modified Sat Jul 24 18:57:24 1993 by Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu)
497be851 28.TH MEMCCPY 3 2009-01-13 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
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29.SH NAME
30memccpy \- copy memory area
31.SH SYNOPSIS
32.nf
33.B #include <string.h>
34.sp
35.BI "void *memccpy(void *" dest ", const void *" src ", int " c ", size_t " n );
36.fi
37.SH DESCRIPTION
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38The
39.BR memccpy ()
40function copies no more than \fIn\fP bytes from
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41memory area \fIsrc\fP to memory area \fIdest\fP, stopping when the
42character \fIc\fP is found.
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43
44If the memory areas overlap, the results are undefined.
47297adb 45.SH RETURN VALUE
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46The
47.BR memccpy ()
48function returns a pointer to the next character
c13182ef 49in \fIdest\fP after \fIc\fP, or NULL if \fIc\fP was not found in the
fea681da 50first \fIn\fP characters of \fIsrc\fP.
47297adb 51.SH CONFORMING TO
01c0d450 52SVr4, 4.3BSD, POSIX.1-2001.
47297adb 53.SH SEE ALSO
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54.BR bcopy (3),
55.BR memcpy (3),
56.BR memmove (3),
57.BR strcpy (3),
58.BR strncpy (3)