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Stuck on passing an array to a struct (Solved)

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Started by Prog101 September 18, 2006 05:00 AM

11 comments, last by Adam Hamilton 17 years, 7 months ago

Adam Hamilton

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September 18, 2006 09:35 PM

Quote:Original post by xeddiex
If you're using C, you would use strcpy and freinds.

You would never copy an array of this type with strcpy cause you would end up copying part of the array - up to the 0, the correct way to copy an char array would be to use memcpy. Friends are a C++ keyword.

Zahlman

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September 19, 2006 01:59 AM

Uh, I think he meant "and friends" in the colloquial sense of "and the other functions with similar names that do similar things." :P

Anyway, in C++, even when you think you need memcpy() or memmove(), you can still do much better: use std::copy() from <algorithm>.

Adam Hamilton

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September 19, 2006 04:08 AM

I apologise... I typed that work so I guess the friend keyword was going through my mind.

There was nothing to indicate that the OP was using C++ and I was responding to the C strcpy comment. I do agree that if coding in C++ you would use std::copy

Edit: Oops... :( He would have been using C++ (the // gives it away) It's the little things you miss :P

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