memcpy

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< c‎ | string‎ | byte
Defined in header <string.h>
void* memcpy( void          *dest, const void          *src, size_t count );
(until C99)
void* memcpy( void *restrict dest, const void *restrict src, size_t count );
(since C99)

Copies count characters from the object pointed to by src to the object pointed to by dest. If the objects overlap, the behavior is undefined.

Contents

[edit] Parameters

dest - pointer to the memory location to copy to
src - pointer to the memory location to copy from
count - number of bytes to copy

[edit] Return value

dest

[edit] Example

#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
 
#define LENGTH_STRING 20
 
int main(void)
{
    char source[LENGTH_STRING] = "Hello, world!";
    char target[LENGTH_STRING] = "";
    int integer[LENGTH_STRING / sizeof(int)] = {0};
    printf("source: %s\n", source);
    printf("target: %s\n", target);
    printf("integer: ");
    for (unsigned i = 0; i < sizeof(integer) / sizeof(integer[0]); ++i) {
        printf("%x ", integer[i]);
    }
    printf("\n========\n");
    memcpy(target, source, sizeof source);
    memcpy(integer, source, sizeof source);
    printf("source: %s\ntarget: %s\n", source, target);
    printf("source(hex): ");
    for (unsigned i = 0; i < sizeof(source) / sizeof(source[0]); ++i) {
        printf("%02x ", source[i]);
    }
    printf("\n");
    printf("integer(hex: %s-endian): ", integer[0] == 0x48656c6c ? "big" : "little");
    for (unsigned i = 0; i < sizeof(integer) / sizeof(integer[0]); ++i) {
        printf("%08x ", integer[i]);
    }
    printf("\n");
}

Possible output:

source: Hello, world!
target: 
integer: 0 0 0 0 0 
========
source: Hello, world!
target: Hello, world!
source(hex): 48 65 6c 6c 6f 2c 20 77 6f 72 6c 64 21 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 
integer(hex: big-endian): 48656c6c 6f2c2077 6f726c64 21000000 00000000

[edit] See also

moves one buffer to another
(function)
C++ documentation for memcpy