Question

Trying to copy a char *str to char c[] but getting segmentation fault or invalid initializer error.

Why is this code is giving me a seg fault?

char *token = "some random string";
char c[80];  
strcpy( c, token);
strncpy(c, token, sizeof c - 1); 
c[79] = '\0';
char *broken = strtok(c, "#");

Answer 1

use strncpy() rather than strcpy()

/* code not tested */
#include <string.h>

int main(void) {
  char *src = "gkjsdh fkdshfkjsdhfksdjghf ewi7tr weigrfdhf gsdjfsd jfgsdjf gsdjfgwe";
  char dst[10]; /* not enough for all of src */

  strcpy(dst, src); /* BANG!!! */
  strncpy(dst, src, sizeof dst - 1); /* OK ... but `dst` needs to be NUL terminated */
      dst[9] = '\0';
  return 0;
}