From: Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Extracting a directory name.
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 20:35:13 +0100
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Hello.

Graham Reeds wrote:
> > Did you consider the possibility that strncpy might not null-terminate
> > the resulting string in BaseDir?
> 
> I did, and tried to append one with strcat, but that didn't solve the
> problem.

You won't be able to append a nul using strcat(). If there's no nul on the
end of the string, how do you determine how long it is? (Hint: nul is the
terminating character for a string in C.) You will have to write the nul
in the char array yourself, e.g.:

    strncpy(dest, src, len);
    dest[len] = '\0';

HTH, bye,

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Richard Dawe
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