Copy string.
  Copies the content pointed by src to dest stopping after the terminating null-character is copied.
  dest should have enough memory space allocated to contain src string.

Parameters.

dest

Destination string. Should be enough long to contain string2.

string2

Null-terminated string to copy.

Return Value.
  dest is returned.

Portability.
  Defined in ANSI-C.

Example.

/* strcpy example */
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>

main ()
{
  char str1[]="Sample string";
  char str2[40];
  char str3[40];
  strcpy (str2,str1);
  strcpy (str3,"copy successful");
  printf ("str1: %s\nstr2: %s\nstr3: %s\n",str1,str2,str3);
  return 0;
}

See also.
  strcat, strncat, strncpy, memcpy