Thread: Problem with Strings

Is there a way just put a few characters into a string instead of copying everything of a string into another string. Heres an example that im working on.

Code:

strcpy(net_data,"");
			 strcpy(net_data_buffer,"");
		  while(data_char2[p]!='.')
		  {
			  net_data_buffer[start]=data_char2[p];
			  start++;
			  p++;

		  }
		  net_data_buffer[start]='\n';

          strncpy(net_data,net_data_buffer,start );
		  start=0;
		  p++;

however, the problem is that when i look at the value of net_data, there are the two letters that i want in there, and then there is garbage followed after that, even after i did this

Code:

strcpy(net_data," ");

cool thanks! it works now. :-)