strcpy writes a trailing zero.
> The strcpy() function copies the string pointed to by src, including the terminating null byte ('\0'), to the buffer pointed to by dest.
> The strcpy() function copies the string pointed to by src, including the terminating null byte ('\0'), to the buffer pointed to by dest.
How so?
> I would have used strcpy 2 times
You can't do this, because strcpy doesn't give you the length of the string you copied, which is necessary to put the trailing null byte.