Eus wrote:
It looks like that you have not zeroed your `a'.
`a[0]='\0';' is not enough.
Either you do `char a[BUFFER_SIZE] = {0};' when defining `a' or, better, you do `memset(a, 0, BUFFER_SIZE);'
That answer is incorrect. strcpy copies the terminating null, so you
don't need to. Depending on how a was declared/allocated your
suggestions might just be useless or they might be harmful.
I don't know the answer to the original question. The answer is in some
part of the code that was not included. Maybe the problem is in the way
a was declared/allocated. Maybe the copy into gave the perfectly
correct result and the problem was in the way a was printed.
