Proper way to empty a C-String

Question

I\'ve been working on a project in C that requires me to mess around with strings a lot. Normally, I do program in C++, so this is a bit different than just saying string.e

Answer 1

If you are trying to clear out a receive buffer for something that receives strings I have found the best way is to use memset as described above. The reason is that no matter how big the next received string is (limited to sizeof buffer of course), it will automatically be an asciiz string if written into a buffer that has been pre-zeroed.