casper....@sun.com wrote:
>
>
> char buf[] = "foo";
>
> strcpy(buf+3, buf);
>
> It's clearly not useful.
OK, but this is a well known case that nobody should be interested in.
> You want this to work:
>
> char buf[] = "foo\\abaz"";
>
> strcpy(buf+4, buf+5); /* Remove "\" at position 4. */
This is the typical use case for overlapping strings.
Jörg
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