Thread: copying the first 10 characters to an array?

I have been trying to figure this out fir hours and I can't.


I'm trying to write code that if the user enters a string longer than 10 characters, only the first 10 characters are stored in an array plus the null byte and rest of the characters are ignored. Please give me your suggestions.


Thank You!

Code:

strncpy( dest, src, 10 );

strncpy() will not add a null byte if there is not one in the first 10 characters of the source string. Thus when using strncpy() one should be careful to always terminate manually.

It's an unfortunately named function, being that it won't always create a string.

However, I don't believe this is what the OP was asking. You could do this (code either taken from or adapted from Dan Pop via clc):

Code:

char buffer[10 + 1] = "";
scanf("%10[^\n]%*[^\n]", buffer);
if (!feof(stdin) && !ferror(stdin)) getchar();

This will read a line, storing the first ten characters and discarding the rest.