c lang codesnippets

strcpy

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
 
int main ()
{
    char base_str[]="Erik was here.";
 
    // Add the + 1 for the null terminator '\0'
    char *cpy_str = (char *)malloc(strlen(base_str) + 1 * sizeof(char));
    if(cpy_str == NULL){
        fprintf(stderr, "Could not allocate memory for our strcpy.\n");
        return -1;
    }    
 
    strcpy(cpy_str,base_str);
 
    fprintf(stdout,"Base str   : -%s-\n", base_str);
    fprintf(stdout,"Copied str : -%s-\n", cpy_str);
 
    free(cpy_str);
 
    return 0;
}