Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!amdcad!sun!pitstop!sundc!seismo!uunet!mcvax!ukc!dcl-cs!nott-cs!anw From: anw@nott-cs.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.std.c Subject: Re: char *strcat(), *strcpy(), *fgets(); Message-ID: <568@tuck.nott-cs.UUCP> Date: 28 Jun 88 16:19:40 GMT References:<1719@ogcvax.ogc.edu> <1309@ark.cs.vu.nl> <2029@pt.cs.cmu.edu> Reply-To: anw@maths.nott.ac.uk (Dr A. N. Walker) Organization: Department of Mathematics, The University, NOTTINGHAM, NG7 2RD, UK. Lines: 11 In article <2029@pt.cs.cmu.edu> jgk@speech2.cs.cmu.edu (Joe Keane) writes: >To be useful, strcpy and strcat should return the end of the new >string. If it has to be one or t'other, don't forget that the way C works it is easier to find the end of a string given its beginning than to find its beginning given its end. -- Andy Walker, Maths Dept., Nott'm Univ., UK anw@maths.nott.ac.uk