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I’m looking at a strcpy example where they increase the value of a pointer, and assign it in 1 line, like this:
*ptrA++ = *ptrB++;
I know that the value where the pointer is pointing to in the char array is increased, and the contents is copied.
does c do something like
*ptrA = *ptrB;
ptrA++;
ptrB++;
in the background ?
Yes it does, remember that the postfix ++ means return the value before the increment. So *ptrA++ increments ptrA but returns the dereference of of ptrA before the increment.