How do I prevent a char pointer buffer overflow?

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Published on 2010-05-11T00:52:42Z Indexed on 2010/05/11 1:04 UTC
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i.e. -

function(char* txt)
{
   sprintf(txt, "select * from %s;", table);
   //How do I set last char in buffer to NULL here?
}

so if the text in table some how was 500 chars long and txt in the main was only defined as 100....

thanks.

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