String functions strcpy with backslashes

[texto]

Not sure if this is an easy one but how do I copy an character array with backslashes to another? Strcpy behaves very strange.

As in the example - ascstr2 prints all weird chars.



ascstr is \x0

ascstr2 is øF



#include <stdio.h>



int main(){
char ascstr[20];
char ascstr2[20];
char *p;
p=ascstr;

*p++ = '\\';
*p++ = 'x';
*p++ = '0';
*p = '\0';
printf ("\nascstr is %s\n", ascstr);
strcpy(ascstr, ascstr2);
printf ("\nascstr2 is %s\n", ascstr2);
return 0;
}

 

[xwb]

strcpy (destination, source);

ergo

strcpy (ascstr2, ascstr);