Name
strncpy function — Copies a string
Synopsis
char* strncpy(char* dst, const char* src, size_t n)
The strncpy
function copies
at most n
characters from the
null-terminated string src
to
dst
. If src
is shorter than dst
, null characters are appended to the
end so that exactly n
characters
are always written to dst
.
The return value is dst
.
See Also
memcpy function, strcpy function, wcsncpy
in <cwchar>
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