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<span class="headline">STPCPY(3)                 Linux Programmer's Manual                STPCPY(3)</span>
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       stpcpy - copy a string returning a pointer to its end
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       <b>#include &lt;string.h&gt;</b>

       <b>char *stpcpy(char *</b><i>dest</i><b>, const char *</b><i>src</i><b>);</b>

   Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see <a href="../man7/feature_test_macros.7.html">feature_test_macros(7)</a>):

       <b>stpcpy</b>():
           Since glibc 2.10:
               _POSIX_C_SOURCE &gt;= 200809L
           Before glibc 2.10:
               _GNU_SOURCE
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       The <b>stpcpy</b>() function copies the string pointed to by <i>src</i> (including
       the terminating null byte ('\0')) to the array pointed to by <i>dest</i>.
       The strings may not overlap, and the destination string <i>dest</i> must be
       large enough to receive the copy.
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       <b>stpcpy</b>() returns a pointer to the <b>end </b>of the string <i>dest</i> (that is,
       the address of the terminating null byte) rather than the beginning.
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       For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see
       <a href="../man7/attributes.7.html">attributes(7)</a>.

       ┌──────────┬───────────────┬─────────┐
       │<b>Interface </b>│ <b>Attribute     </b>│ <b>Value   </b>│
       ├──────────┼───────────────┼─────────┤
       │<b>stpcpy</b>()  │ Thread safety │ MT-Safe │
       └──────────┴───────────────┴─────────┘
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       This function was added to POSIX.1-2008.  Before that, it was not
       part of the C or POSIX.1 standards, nor customary on UNIX systems.
       It first appeared at least as early as 1986, in the Lattice C
       AmigaDOS compiler, then in the GNU fileutils and GNU textutils in
       1989, and in the GNU C library by 1992.  It is also present on the
       BSDs.
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       This function may overrun the buffer <i>dest</i>.
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       For example, this program uses <b>stpcpy</b>() to concatenate <b>foo </b>and <b>bar </b>to
       produce <b>foobar</b>, which it then prints.

       #define _GNU_SOURCE
       #include &lt;string.h&gt;
       #include &lt;stdio.h&gt;

       int
       main(void)
       {
           char buffer[20];
           char *to = buffer;

           to = stpcpy(to, "foo");
           to = stpcpy(to, "bar");
           printf("%s\n", buffer);
       }
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       <a href="bcopy.3.html">bcopy(3)</a>, <a href="memccpy.3.html">memccpy(3)</a>, <a href="memcpy.3.html">memcpy(3)</a>, <a href="memmove.3.html">memmove(3)</a>, <a href="stpncpy.3.html">stpncpy(3)</a>, <a href="strcpy.3.html">strcpy(3)</a>,
       <a href="string.3.html">string(3)</a>, <a href="wcpcpy.3.html">wcpcpy(3)</a>
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       This page is part of release 4.15 of the Linux <i>man-pages</i> project.  A
       description of the project, information about reporting bugs, and the
       latest version of this page, can be found at
       <a href="https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/">https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/</a>.

<span class="footline">GNU                              2016-03-15                        STPCPY(3)</span>
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