I need help with strings in C

Yes, in C. *Don't flame the Ruby guy just yet please. *Here are a couple of things I would like to know/understand:
* How to input a string in the safest possible way (the input might have space characters in it (like when you ask for a name) so make sure the code works with that)
* How to safely concatenate 2 strings
* How to safely copy a string
* How to remove the Enter ("\n&quot from a string (chomp in Ruby and Perl)

A note to Ashcrow: I do not have strlcat and strlcpy (though I wish I did), so don't give me example using these.

For concatenation, copying and comparison, couldn't you use strcat(), strcpy and strcmp()?
(Did you misspell?)

To chomp, why not do exactly what the strcpy function does, but instead of exitting when the null char is reached, exit the loop when the newline is reached and then stick a null char at the end of the copied string (it depends how you do it though).

while (*src != '\n')
 * *dest++ = *src++;

*dest = '\0';

...and for the space thing, do you mean in 1 string contain all spaces or split text into strings delimited by spaces?
If it's one big string, I'm not sure...
If it's splitted, well I think you'd know how to do that....so yeah I don't know either.

first of all, you have to know that in C a string is just an array of characters, followed by a \0 character (very important)

* How to input a string in the safest possible way (the input might have space characters in it (like when you ask for a name) so make sure the code works with that)

char buffer[100]; */ always use the lenght u want + 1. the extra 1 is for the \0 */
fgets(buffer,100,stdin);
buffer[strlen(buffer) - 1] = '\0'; */ this replaces the \n by \0 */

* How to safely concatenate 2 strings

strcat(targetstring, sourcestring);

* How to safely copy a string

strcpy(targetstring, sourcestring);

* How to remove the Enter ("\n&quot from a string (chomp in Ruby and Perl)

buffer[strlen(buffer) - 1] = '\0';

[gorn]

char buffer[100]; */ always use the lenght u want + 1. the extra 1 is for the \0 */
fgets(buffer,100,stdin);
buffer[strlen(buffer) - 1] = '\0'; */ this replaces the \n by \0 */

the probelm is a \0 is placed at buffer+101
you want to make it only read 99 charectors just in case

strcat(targetstring, sourcestring);
strcpy(targetstring, sourcestring);

tisnt safe,
strncat(targetstring, sourcestring, AMMOUNTOFCHARSTOCOPY);
strncpy(targetstring, sourcestring, SIZEOFTARGETSTRING);

ha when i was writting this i started to do <esc>:wq

:wq