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I am maintaining some old C programs using BTrieve databases. &nbsp;When I move the contents of a database field into a string, it is padded with &nbsp;ÌÌÌÌÌÌÌÌÌÌ characters at the end of the string. &nbsp;What are these and how can I get rid of them. &nbsp;I am moving the 50 character database field to a string array of 51 characters using the strncpy command.<br />

<pre><code id="code-191408">strncpy(strLongName, MhfsHdr.LongName, 50);
trim(strLongName);
strcpy(CompanyName, strLongName);
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I am maintaining some old C programs using BTrieve databases.  When I move the contents of a database field into a string, it is padded with  ÌÌÌÌÌÌÌÌÌÌ characters at the end of the string.  What are these and how can I get rid of them.  I am moving the 50 character database field to a string array of 51 characters using the strncpy command.

ÌÌÌÌÌÌÌÌÌÌ characters in string C programming

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ÌÌÌÌÌÌÌÌÌÌ characters in string C programming