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C LIBRARY FUNCTION - MEMMOVE()
Description
The C library function void *memmove(void *str1, const void *str2, size_t n) copies n characters
from str2 to str1, but for overlapping memory blocks, memmove() is a safer approach than memcpy().
Declaration
Following is the declaration for memmove() function.
void *memmove(void *str1, const void *str2, size_t n)
Parameters
str1 -- This is pointer to the destination array where the content is to be copied, type-casted to a pointer
of type void*.
str2 -- This is pointer to the source of data to be copied, type-casted to a pointer of type void*.
n -- This is the number of bytes to be copied.
Return Value
This function returns a pointer to destination, which is str1
Example
The following example shows the usage of memmove() function.
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
int main ()
{
const char dest[] = "oldstring";
const char src[] = "newstring";
printf("Before memmove dest = %s, src = %s\n", dest, src);
memmove(dest, src, 9);
printf("After memmove dest = %s, src = %s\n", dest, src);
return(0);
}
Let us compile and run the above program, this will produce the following result:
Before memmove dest = oldstring, src = newstring
After memmove dest = newstring, src = newstring

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