RE: strcpy HELP!!!

[6xtippet@icubed.com (Lee Brinton)]

Scott D. Killen writes:
> You are copying the string to temp2 which has not been initialized and is a
> NULL pointer.  You need to allocate memory of at least the same size as
> temp1 to temp2 and
> this will solve your problem.

When using C library string functions always allocate memory of at least the
length of the string pointed to by temp1 plus 1 byte to hold the string
termination character '\0'.

As in:

temp2 = (char*)malloc(strlen(temp1) + 1);

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