Help With Arrays

Hello friends at comp.lang.c,

I'm reading from a socket descriptor and copying the data to a buffer using:

char buffer[MAXVALUE];
..
..
nread = read(newSd, line, MAXVALUE);

The string to be copied to the buffer is of varying size, so what I'd like
to know is if there's a way to copy the data, without having to specify a
max value, making the size of the string the same size as the array.

Thanks,
Craig


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