The following code confused me a bit:
char * strcpy(char * p, const char * q) {
while (*p++=*q++);
//return
}
This is a stripped down implementation of strcpy
function. From this code, we see that pointer p
and q
are incremented then dereferenced and q
is assigned to p
until the \0
char has been reached.
I would like someone to explain the first iteration of the while loop.
Because the ++
is after the variables, they aren't incremented until after the expression is evaluated. That's why it's the post-increment operator; the pre-increment is prefixed (++p
). *++p
would write to the second spot, *p++
writes to the first.