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726663fd | 25 | .TH STPCPY 3 2014-05-10 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual" |
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26 | .SH NAME |
27 | stpcpy \- copy a string returning a pointer to its end | |
28 | .SH SYNOPSIS | |
29 | .nf | |
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30 | .B #include <string.h> |
31 | .sp | |
32 | .BI "char *stpcpy(char *" dest ", const char *" src ); | |
33 | .fi | |
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34 | .sp |
35 | .in -4n | |
36 | Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see | |
37 | .BR feature_test_macros (7)): | |
38 | .in | |
39 | .sp | |
40 | .BR stpcpy (): | |
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41 | .PD 0 |
42 | .ad l | |
43 | .RS 4 | |
44 | .TP 4 | |
45 | Since glibc 2.10: | |
46 | _XOPEN_SOURCE\ >=\ 700 || _POSIX_C_SOURCE\ >=\ 200809L | |
47 | .TP | |
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48 | Before glibc 2.10: |
49 | _GNU_SOURCE | |
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50 | .RE |
51 | .ad | |
52 | .PD | |
fea681da | 53 | .SH DESCRIPTION |
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54 | The |
55 | .BR stpcpy () | |
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56 | function copies the string pointed to by |
57 | .I src | |
71d9e7ae | 58 | (including the terminating null byte (\(aq\\0\(aq)) to the array pointed to by |
e4a0d6cb | 59 | .IR dest . |
1c44bd5b | 60 | The strings may not overlap, and the destination string |
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61 | .I dest |
62 | must be large enough to receive the copy. | |
47297adb | 63 | .SH RETURN VALUE |
60a90ecd | 64 | .BR stpcpy () |
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65 | returns a pointer to the |
66 | .B end | |
67 | of the string | |
68 | .I dest | |
69 | (that is, the address of the terminating null byte) | |
fea681da | 70 | rather than the beginning. |
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71 | .SH ATTRIBUTES |
72 | .SS Multithreading (see pthreads(7)) | |
73 | The | |
74 | .BR stpcpy () | |
75 | function is thread-safe. | |
47297adb | 76 | .SH CONFORMING TO |
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77 | This function was added to POSIX.1-2008. |
78 | Before that, it was not part of | |
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79 | the C or POSIX.1 standards, nor customary on UNIX systems. |
80 | It first appeared at least as early as 1986, | |
81 | in the Lattice C AmigaDOS compiler, | |
82 | then in the GNU fileutils and GNU textutils in 1989, | |
d6780233 | 83 | and in the GNU C library by 1992. |
4175f999 | 84 | It is also present on the BSDs. |
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85 | .SH BUGS |
86 | This function may overrun the buffer | |
87 | .IR dest . | |
fea681da | 88 | .SH EXAMPLE |
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89 | For example, this program uses |
90 | .BR stpcpy () | |
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91 | to concatenate |
92 | .B foo | |
93 | and | |
94 | .B bar | |
95 | to produce | |
96 | .BR foobar , | |
97 | which it then prints. | |
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98 | .nf |
99 | ||
56e50303 | 100 | #define _GNU_SOURCE |
2b2581ee | 101 | #include <string.h> |
56e50303 | 102 | #include <stdio.h> |
fea681da | 103 | |
2b2581ee | 104 | int |
b6898014 | 105 | main(void) |
2b2581ee | 106 | { |
56e50303 | 107 | char buffer[20]; |
2b2581ee | 108 | char *to = buffer; |
56e50303 | 109 | |
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110 | to = stpcpy(to, "foo"); |
111 | to = stpcpy(to, "bar"); | |
112 | printf("%s\\n", buffer); | |
113 | } | |
fea681da | 114 | .fi |
47297adb | 115 | .SH SEE ALSO |
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116 | .BR bcopy (3), |
117 | .BR memccpy (3), | |
118 | .BR memcpy (3), | |
119 | .BR memmove (3), | |
268a3684 | 120 | .BR stpncpy (3), |
1709027c | 121 | .BR strcpy (3), |
d095200e | 122 | .BR string (3), |
0a4f8b7b | 123 | .BR wcpcpy (3) |