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Name

memccpy - copy memory area

Synopsis


#include <string.h>
void *memccpy(void *dest, const void *src, int c, size_t n);

Description

The memccpy() function copies no more than n bytes from memory area src to memory area dest, stopping when the character c is found.

If the memory areas overlap, the results are undefined.

Return Value

The memccpy() function returns a pointer to the next character in dest after c, or NULL if c was not found in the first n characters of src.

Attributes

Multithreading (see pthreads(7) )

The memccpy() function is thread-safe.

Conforming to

SVr4, 4.3BSD, POSIX.1-2001.

See Also

bcopy(3) , memcpy(3) , memmove(3) , strcpy(3) , strncpy(3)

Colophon

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