Defined in header `<string.h>`
void* memccpy( void* restrict dest, const void* restrict src, int c, size_t count );		(since C23)

Copies bytes from the object pointed to by src to the object pointed to by dest, stopping after any of the next two conditions are satisfied:

Parameters

Return value

If the byte (unsigned char)c was found, memccpy returns a pointer to the next byte in dest after (unsigned char)c. Otherwise it returns a null pointer.

Notes

memccpy(dest, src, 0, count) behaves similar to strncpy(dest, src, count), except that the former returns a pointer to the end of the buffer written, and does not zero-pad the destination array. Thus, memccpy is useful for efficiently concatenating multiple strings.

char bigString[1000];
char* end = bigString + sizeof bigString;
 
char* p = memccpy(bigString, "John, ", '\0', sizeof bigString - 1);
if (p)
    p = memccpy(p - 1, "Paul, ", '\0', end - p);
if (p)
    p = memccpy(p - 1, "George, ", '\0', end - p);
if (p)
    p = memccpy(p - 1, "Joel ", '\0', end - p);
if (!p)
    end[-1] = '\0';
 
puts(bigString); // John, Paul, George, Joel

Example

#include <ctype.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
 
int main(void)
{
    const char src[] = "Stars: Altair, Sun, Vega.";
    const char terminal[] = {':', ' ', ',', '.', '!'};
    char dest[sizeof src];
    const char alt = '@';
 
    for (size_t i = 0; i != sizeof terminal; ++i)
    {
        void* to = memccpy(dest, src, terminal[i], sizeof dest);
 
        printf("Terminal '%c' (%s):\t\"", terminal[i], to ? "found" : "absent");
 
        // if `terminal` character was not found - print the whole `dest`
        to = to ? to : dest + sizeof dest;
 
        for (char* from = dest; from != to; ++from)
            putchar(isprint(*from) ? *from : alt);
 
        puts("\"");
    }
 
 
    puts("\n" "Separate star names from distances (ly):");
    const char *star_distance[] = {
        "Arcturus : 37", "Vega : 25", "Capella : 43", "Rigel : 860", "Procyon : 11"
    };
    char names_only[64];
    char *first = names_only;
    char *last = names_only + sizeof names_only;
 
    for (size_t t = 0; t != (sizeof star_distance) / (sizeof star_distance[0]); ++t)
    {
        if (first)
            first = memccpy(first, star_distance[t], ' ', last - first);
        else
            break;
    }
 
    if (first)
    {
        *first = '\0';
        puts(names_only);
    }
    else
        puts("Buffer is too small.");
}

Output:

Terminal ':' (found):   "Stars:"
Terminal ' ' (found):   "Stars: "
Terminal ',' (found):   "Stars: Altair,"
Terminal '.' (found):   "Stars: Altair, Sun, Vega."
Terminal '!' (absent):  "Stars: Altair, Sun, Vega.@"
 
Separate star names from distances (ly):
Arcturus Vega Capella Rigel Procyon

dest	-	pointer to the object to copy to
src	-	pointer to the object to copy from
c	-	terminating byte, converted to `unsigned char` at first
count	-	number of bytes to copy

memcpymemcpy_s (C11)	copies one buffer to another (function)
wmemcpywmemcpy_s (C95)(C11)	copies a certain amount of wide characters between two non-overlapping arrays (function)
memmovememmove_s (C11)	moves one buffer to another (function)
strcpystrcpy_s (C11)	copies one string to another (function)
strcatstrcat_s (C11)	concatenates two strings (function)

memccpy

Parameters

Return value

Notes

Example

See also