A question...

[Shiping Zhang]

In article <1025 at virtech.UUCP> cpcahil at virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill) writes:
>
>Solution:
>	1. Place a null in str_time[2] after the strncpy().
>	2. Change the strncpy()s and strcats()s to a single sprintf as
>	   follows:
>		sprintf(str_time, "%2s:%2s:%2s" local_str, local_str+2,
>						local_str+4);
>

The second solution is wrong. %2s does not limit the number of
characters to 2. It only specifies the MINIMUM feild. If the length
of local_str is 6, then the length of str_time will be 12 after
sprintf().

-ping