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PL_strcpy

Copies a string, up to and including the trailing '\0', into a destination buffer.

Syntax

char * PL_strcpy(char *dest, const char *src);

Parameters

The function has these parameters:

dest
Pointer to a buffer. On output, the buffer contains a copy of the string passed in src.
src
Pointer to the string to be copied.

Returns

The function returns a pointer to the buffer specified by the dest parameter.

Description

If the string specified by src is longer than the buffer specified by dest, the buffer will not be null-terminated.

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