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Clearing character arrays

Clearing character arrays

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Question:
How do you clear a character array?

Answer:
You can use the standard C library memset function. Here is an example:

void foo (){   char t [20];     cin >> t;   cout << t;   memset (t,0,20); // sets all values in the array to 0}

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