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I'm playing around with strncpy in C and am having some trouble.
The code is as follows:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
    char src[] = "Benjamin Franklin";
    char dest[5];
    strncpy(src, dest, sizeof(dest) / sizeof(char));
    dest[5] = '\0';
    printf("%s\n", dest);
    return 0;
}
which compiles with no errors using:
gcc -Wall -g -Werror    test.c   -o test
and prints out gibberish like
p4??
I cannot really understand what I'm doing wrong especially since I have played around with it a lot and been looking online for answers. Perhaps since I am using arrays I am passing the address to printf without realising it?
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