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Copy char array
Hi,
I'm trying to copy a char array to another. After that fill the array with char 0. For example if I have unsigned char a[20] and unsigned char b[64], then copy a to b and fill the rest of the array with char 0. This program must only works with array of char. Working with strings would be much easier, but with char array i donīt know how to do this. Thanks
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Originally Posted by cheb
Hi,
I'm trying to copy a char array to another. After that fill the array with char 0. For example if I have unsigned char a[20] and unsigned char b[64], then copy a to b and fill the rest of the array with char 0. This program must only works with array of char. Working with strings would be much easier, but with char array i donīt know how to do this. Thanks
A standard for loop/assignment operation would wor If youre allowed, you could just use a memcpy/memset statement too. Sounds like a homework problem to me, therefore I'm not going to provide any code.
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Here's some pseudo-code. src is the array that you are copying from, and dest is the array you are copying to
Code:
for each character in src
dest = assoicated src character
for the rest of the characters
assoicated dest = 0
It may look like a restatement of what you asked, but that should be it.
For the second loop you can calculcate the total number of iterations by subtracting the length of src from dest, then add to that the length of src for the assignment offsets into the array.
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Probably easier (but less efficient) to set all elements of b to zero initially and then simply copy a to b.
There is also another way. HINT: One of the standard C functions does this already.
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The strncpy() function copies at most count characters of from to the string to. If from has less than count characters, the remainder is padded with '\0' characters. The return value is the resulting string.
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Originally Posted by para45
Here's some pseudo-code. src is the array that you are copying from, and dest is the array you are copying to
Code:
for each character in src
dest = assoicated src character
for the rest of the characters
assoicated dest = 0
Here's exactly what it means:
#include<iostream>
using namespace std;
int main()
{
const int size1 = 3;//you can make
const int size2 = 6;//these dynamic given that size1<=size2
unsigned char src[size1];
unsigned char dest[size2]={'0'};
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