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How about memset?

void * memset ( void * ptr, int value, size_t num );

usage:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>

int main ()
{
  memset (str,'-',6);
}

DLC

> Hi guys,
>
> I was writing some software for a scrolling message board when I came
> across the problem of clearing arrays during run-time in C.
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> Usually I do something like:
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> unsigned char array1[100];
> unsigned char count;
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> for (count = 0; count < 100; count++){
>
>   array1[count] = 0;
> }
>
> Has anybody ever come across a faster or more interesting way of
> accomplishing this ?
>
> Cheers
> Hein B
> Auckland, New Zealand
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