Copy a String

This is a pair exercise and must be competed in your tutorial or lab with your partner.

For this activity, you’ll be writing the function stringCopy:

void stringCopy (char *destination, char *source, int destSize);

It takes a string in the source buffer, and copies it to the destination buffer, which is destSize elements in size. If there are more characters in source than there is array space in destination, you should stop after you have filled the array. You should always make sure that your function null-terminates the destination` array.

Download stringCopy.c, or copy it into your current directory on a CSE system by running 

$ cp /web/cs1511/17s2/week05/files/stringCopy.c .

We’ve provided a simple test to help you build your solution. You should write more tests to demonstrate your solution works.

To run some simple automated tests:

$ 1511 autotest stringCopy

To run Styl-o-matic:

$ 1511 stylomatic stringCopy.c
Looks good!

You’ll get advice if you need to make changes to your code.

Submit your work with the give command, like so:

$ give cs1511 wk05_stringCopy

Or, if you are working from home, upload the relevant file(s) to the wk05_stringCopy activity on Give Online.