Strange characters in a string (char[20])

[cadbilbao]

Hi again !!!

Using VC++, I want to extract a substring (name) from another
string (infile):


-------------//----------------------
void dodo(char *infile) {

int lgt;
lgt = strlen(infile);

char name[10];

for (int x=0; x<=lgt-5; x++)
name[x]=infile[x];

printf (&quot;name=%s&quot;,name);

...

-------//----------------


But what I get is this:
name = JohnÌÌÌÌÌ

How can I remove those strange characters???

TIA.

 

[SteveD73]

Hi

What is wrong is you are missing the end of string character from the name string. What you can do is after the for loop put

name[x] = '\0'; // terminate the string

Hope that works.

 

[Cagliostro]

lgt = strlen(infile);
lgt in this case will be the number of characters excluding the null of the end. You need lgt = strlen(infile)+1; John Fill

ivfmd@mail.md

 

[Zyrenthian]

Well, it looks like &quot;infile&quot; does not have a '\0' at the end of it. Do you get the same output if you do the printf with infile? What happens with a strcpy? and what do you get for the strlen? This looks like a very specific case where you know the length of the string.

I think this will add the '\0' automatically

strncpy(name,infile,lgt-5);

Matt