Thread: strcpy - How to copy a single character to string?

Hi,

Lets say I'm reading a certain character from a file stream using the fgetc function. How can I append this character to another string using the strcopy function (or perhaps a more suitable one from the string.h lib) without running into serious errors?

Thanks.

Originally Posted by itsme86

You're probably better off just adding to the string manually rather than calling a function. Something like:

Code:

{
  char string[BUFSIZ];
  int index = 0;
  int c;

  while((c = fgetc(fp)) != EOF)
    string[index++] = c;
  string[index] = '\0';   /* Mustn't forget to terminate the string */
}

That's assuming fp is your file pointer.

You'd want to change the while to avoid a buffer overflow, also:

Code:

while (index < BUFSIZ-1 && (c = fgetc(fp)) != EOF)