Thread: fancy strcpy

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    listen you fruity piece of ****. you dont tell me what to do on this board. I have seniority over you(not that it matters), and i damn well dont see you doing any help on this board. i go as far as writing whole working programs and u sit here telling me im an idiot? well go cry to someone else cause i dont care about your personal problems homo.

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    quote:
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    >>*craps pants*

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    >young children tend to do that

    hehe

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    Denethor, you're wrong. Stop complaining and insulting the correct people because you're not getting anywhere. Back to the original question.
    Code:
    char a1='r';
    char a2='f';
    char mystring[2];
    mystring[0]=a1;
    mystring[1]=a2;
    Whoever asked the original question, when you combine characters, you get a string which is an array of characters. If you don't know what an array is look at the tutorials on this site.

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    [moderator warning]

    Let's please get along fyodor and denethor, shall we? If not, then there will be moderation and consequences. There is no need for foul language, nor excessive use of capital letters. And most of all it would be appreciated if we did not have to point out that we were right, rather let the example speak for itself.

    Heat551, can you be more specific with your question? Thank you.

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    I don't recall using foul language, but I apologize if I offended anyone. It's just that I read and post on seven or eight forums a day and CAPS get annoying.

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    well im gonna add to this post cuz it was funny.. and i believe the original poster wanted to combine two chars from seperate strings or single char data type and put them into one string...

    cuz he does not sounds advanced enough to want to ASCII numbers added to each other...

    if you wanted to add the VALUE ( NOTE VALUE) of a char, remember a CHAR is essentially an Integer, its a 1 byte, 8 bit, 255 combination of 1's and 0's...



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    ss3x and swoopy both provided legitimate answers to the question.

    You are intentionally being confusing Denthor2000, and there is also the point about the CAPS spamming. Please restrain yourself.
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    Originally posted by swoopy
    I kind of interpreted what he said, to what he really meant. I could be wrong.
    Yea, you were actually the only one that understood his question... lol...
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    ok, ill rephrase myself...

    sorry about that being so vague i was in a hurry

    i meant a char variable that is holding a string
    sorry, books don't explain terminology too well

    like this
    Code:
    char thisismychar[20]
    strcpy(thisismychar, "I'm holding a string");
    char anotherchar[20]
    strcpy(anotherchar, ", and so am I!");
    how would i combine the two strings or chars or whatever they are called into another char or whatever its called?

    thanks

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    Uaaah and i posted first with the correct answer but i get no credit =P

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    thank you swoppy!

    yay, someone did answer my question and not just spam

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    Aha! Repent!
    A char is only able to hold one letter. Thats when arrays come in.
    When you do char blabla[50] you actually create 50 chars, one for each letter, which then become kind of "grouped" into the same name so that you can make them hold strings.
    So the correct term would be character arrays or strings.

    And use strcat() to combine stuff.
    It takes two char arrays and puts the last into the end of the first.
    For example:

    Code:
    char first[20], second[20], total[41];
    strcpy(total, first);
    strcat(total, second); // adds second to the end of total

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    )(#"/¤)(/%)=¤#)(& and when i finally answer he finds someone else that has. Grrrrrr :P:P:P

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    i understand now!

    ok, thanks eriond i was calling character arrays "chars" my mistake

    by the way, i liked fightgame (until i got caught playing it during programming )
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    Hehe thanks man!

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