path: root/src/string/str/strccpy.c

/**
 * slibc — Yet another C library
 * Copyright © 2015, 2016  Mattias Andrée (maandree@member.fsf.org)
 * 
 * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
 * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
 * the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
 * (at your option) any later version.
 * 
 * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
 * GNU General Public License for more details.
 * 
 * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
 * along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 */
#include <string.h>



/**
 * Copy a memory segment to another, non-overlapping, segment,
 * stop when a NUL byte or a specified byte is encountered.
 * 
 * This is a slibc extension added for completeness.
 * 
 * @param   whither  The destination memory segment.
 * @param   whence   The source memory segment.
 * @param   c        The stop byte.
 * @return           `NULL` if `c` was not encountered, otherwise
 *                   the position of `c` translated to `whither`,
 *                   that is, the address of `whither` plus the
 *                   number of copied characters; the address of
 *                   one character passed the last written non-NUL
 *                   character.
 * 
 * @since  Always.
 */
char* strccpy(char* restrict whither, const char* restrict whence, int c)
{
  char* r = memccpy(whither, whence, c, strlen(whence) + 1);
  if (r)
    *r = 0;
  return r;
}