Re: strcat strncat and strlen

vippstar@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

On Mar 31, 3:47 am, santosh <santosh....@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Bill Cunningham wrote:
Strncat is supposed to be better than strcat for some
reason I've read.

It does something different to what it's name would suggest. We have
had innumerable threads dealing with this topic. Just do a Google
search.

Is this because of a potential buffer overflow?

Well, it can be used with that aim, in which case it leaves an array
of char instead of a string in the destination.

I have compiled properly and used strlen too and I just wonder what
is the need to return a strlen?

Has anyone used quite abit anyway the strlen function?

You are not making any sense. Are you asking why strlen exists? It
should be obvious, even to you. How else do you find the length of a
zero terminated string?

Can you or someone else please explain why everyone is still replying
to this "Bill Cunningham' troll?
It's clear he is a troll.

I was doubtful for a while, but I believe you are right. In any case,
even if he were not a troll, he seems to be unable to learn, so
replying to him seems increasingly pointless.

It's been noted countless times and he
*never* replies to the posts that call him a troll.
He always choses to take things out of context, to make
uncomprehensible sentences and ambiguous statements.
It's a troll. So.. why?

It was a case of "cutting him some slack" as Richard said. Bill has been
cut more slack than probably anyone else, but personally I'm done with
him.

.

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