mem copy help need

[askcq]

main()
{
char *sou;
char *dest;
char str[4]={"ie"};
char str1[4]={"ee"};
int size;
dest=&str;
sou=&str1;
printf("%s\n",sou);
printf("%s\n",dest);
 size =strlen(str);
printf("%dsize\n",size);
memcpy(dest,sou, size);
 
printf("%s",*sou);
printf("\n%s",*dest);
 
}
 

i couldnt copy the strings...pls help

[horace1]

sou and dest are char* so you don't need the * to dereference them in the printf statement

printf("%s",*sou);
printf("\n%s",*dest);
 

also strlen() returns the number of characters in the string not counting the terminating null so you need to add 1 to size, e.g.

 size =strlen(str)+1;
printf("%dsize\n",size);
memcpy(dest,sou, size);
printf("%s",sou);
printf("\n%s",dest);