Changeset 631 for trunk/psLib/src/sysUtils/psString.c

Timestamp:

May 10, 2004, 9:01:36 AM (22 years ago)

Author:

evanalst

Message:

Modified to ensure last byte of N-copy is a null character.

File:

• trunk/psLib/src/sysUtils/psString.c (modified) (3 diffs)

trunk/psLib/src/sysUtils/psString.c

@@ -8 +8 @@
  *  @author Eric Van Alst, MHPCC
  *   
- *  @version $Revision: 1.3 $ $Name: not supported by cvs2svn $
- *  @date $Date: 2004-04-28 22:20:22 $
+ *  @version $Revision: 1.4 $ $Name: not supported by cvs2svn $
+ *  @date $Date: 2004-05-10 19:01:36 $
  *
  *  Copyright 2004 Maui High Performance Computing Center, University of Hawaii
@@ -72 +72 @@
 )
 {
+    char *returnValue = NULL;
+
     // Check the number of characters to copy is non-negative
     if ( nChar < 0 ) {
@@ -82 +84 @@
     // Copy input string to memory allocated up to nChar characters
     // Return the copy
-    return strncpy(psAlloc((size_t)nChar + 1), str, (size_t)nChar);
+    returnValue = strncpy(psAlloc((size_t)nChar + 1), str, (size_t)nChar);
+
+    // Ensure the last byte is NULL character
+    if ( nChar > 0 ) {
+        returnValue[nChar-1] = NULL;
+    }
+
+    // Return the string pointer
+    return returnValue;
 }