#: 8639 S3/Languages
    08-Dec-90  11:32:10
Sb: #8589-#'C' problem
Fm: Jim Peasley 72726,1153
To: Pete Lyall 76703,4230 (X)

Pete;

  My weekly question on "C" this week is on memcpy and strcat.  I seem to be
missing the boat somehow, and would appreciate a "pointer" to whtre I'm
erring.

>> inline = "01/22/54Tiny Tim*Birthday" << addr. passed to funct. 'print_event'

print_event(inline,yr)
  char *inline;
  int yr;
{
  int s_len,
      ev_len;

  char date[6],
       *eptr,
       name[32];

  memcpy(date,inline,5);                /* pull in 1st 5 bytes          */
  strcat(date,'\0');                    /* and null term it             */

  eptr = strchr(inline,'*');            /* loo' for delimiter           */
  s_len = strlen(eptr);                 /* get length of event + '*'    */

  ev_len = strlen(inline + 8);          /* get length of instring - date*/
  memcpy(name,(inline + 8),(ev_len - s_len));  /* copy only name        */
  strcat(name,'\0');                    /* and null term it             */

  printf("\n%s   %s",date,name);

  return;
}

>> date = "01/22 %#Tiny Tim%#&$!"#$!"
>> name = "Tiny Tim%$#!%$%!"#$#$"


  In both cases, my strings don't get null terminated and it prints garbage
chars after them. 

 ...Jim



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