Thread: String returned from function being truncated for some reason -- any idea why?

I have a C program and in main(), a function is called that returns a string. The string is a long string 600+ chars long, but it only returns the first 240 characters of that string. How can I fix this? Your help is most appreciated Thanks!

Here is the execution of the program:

% a.out
12345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890 12345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890 12345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890 12345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890 1234567890123456789012345678901234567890

... piped into word count it counts 242 characters (probably including CR, LF)...
% a.out | wc
1 1 242

Here is the function...

Code:

/*----------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
#include<stdio.h>
#include<stdlib.h>
#include<string.h>

/*---------------------------------------------------------
   main program start here
---------------------------------------------------------*/

main(argc, argv)
int argc;
char *argv[];
{
   char str_val[800];

   memset(str_val,'\0',800);

   sprintf(str_val, "%s", getstr2());
   printf("%s\n",str_val);
   exit(0);
} /* main */

int getstr2()
{
  char tmp_str[800];
  int i;
  
   memset(tmp_str, '\0', 800);
   sprintf(tmp_str, "%s", "1234567890");
   for ( i=0; i<59; i++)
      strcat(tmp_str, "1234567890");
   strcat(tmp_str, "xyz.");
   return(tmp_str);
}

Worked.

Thanks for the reply.