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Hi all,

I have a problem while doing strcpy

I have a charater pointer char **a; and another character array b[3]

I am copying the content of a to b

strcpy(b,a);

After copying,

when i print a , the content of a is printed.
when i print b, the content of b is blank.

what would be the problem. Couldn't understand the behaviour.
Pls help
Aug 10 '07 #1
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JosAH
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Hi all,

I have a problem while doing strcpy

I have a charater pointer char **a; and another character array b[3]

I am copying the content of a to b

strcpy(b,a);

After copying,

when i print a , the content of a is printed.
when i print b, the content of b is blank.

what would be the problem. Couldn't understand the behaviour.
Pls help
A char** points to a thing that points to zero or more chars. A char* points to
zero or more chars. You can't copy one to the other because it most likely wouldn't
mean anything and second, starting at location p, where char** p; most likely
there will not be a zero terminated sequence of chars there and strcpy() goes
haywire on it.

kind regards,

Jos
Aug 10 '07 #2

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