.TH fmt_strn 3 .SH NAME fmt_strn \- write an ASCII string .SH SYNTAX .B #include size_t \fBfmt_strn\fP(char *\fIdest\fR,const char *\fIsource\fR, size_t \fImaxlen\fR); .SH DESCRIPTION fmt_str copies at most \fImaxlen\fR leading nonzero bytes from \fIsource\fR to \fIdest\fR and returns the number of bytes it copied. fmt_str does not append \\0. If \fIdest\fR equals FMT_LEN (i.e. is zero), fmt_strn returns the number of bytes it would have written. .SH "SEE ALSO" strncpy(3)