Character Array copying

**Drainy** · 03-15-2005

Hi,

Many thanks to hk_mp5kpdw for answering my previous post, was perfect thanks!

Since this is a different problem I figured a different topic would be wise, this time it should be fairly simple. Ive simply forgotten how to make one character array equal to another
eg

Code:

char name[20];
char tname[20];

tname = name;

I need tname to become equal to name as I am passing it to another function, but I cant find the lecture we had on this.

Thanks
-Steve

Edit- sorry, I have a scanf to take a value for name before I reach tname = name and tname should be empty.

**bithub** · 03-15-2005

strcpy()

**Drainy** · 03-15-2005

thats the one

Cheers

**coolshyam** · 03-15-2005

hi there
you can use two methods for this
1. as our dear friend notified, use

Code:

strcpy(tname,name);

else

Code:

    int i;
    for(i=0;i<20;i++)
    {
             tname[i]=name[i];
     }

**Quantum1024** · 03-15-2005

And there is also memcpy...

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