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===== memmove =====

<code c>
    #include <stdlib.h>
    void *memmove(void *str1, const void *str2, size_t n);
</code>
str1: target memory block (at least size bytes in size)\\
str2: source memory block (at least size bytes in size)\\
n: number of bytes to be copied (The type size_t corresponds usually int))\\
    
=====  memmove C Sourcecode Example =====
<code c>
/* 
 * memmove example code
 * http://code-reference.com/c/string.h/memmove
 */
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
 
int main ( void )
{

  char str[100] = "memmove example"; 
  char str2[15];  
  int n;  
  
  n = strlen(str);   /* bytes to copy */
  
  memmove( str2, str, n );
  
  printf("\"move\" string str to str2 : ");
  puts( str2 );

  printf("move str 40 bytes further : ");
  memmove(str+40, str, 15);
  puts(str);

  printf("move str 14 bytes further : ");
  memmove(str+8, str, 15);
  puts(str);

  return 0;
}

</code>

==== output of memmove c example ====
    user@host:~$ ./memmove 
    "move" string str to str2 : memmove example
    move str 40 bytes further : memmove example
    move str 14 bytes further : memmove memmove example