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Hi David!
I am working through your (so far great) book on C (Head First C), and spotted a peculiarity in the code:
in section 2.5, under "It's time for a code review", the code states:

int main()
{
char search_for[80];
printf("Search for: ");
scanf("%79s", search_for);
search_for[strlen(search_for)-1] = '\0';
find_track(search_for);
return 0;
}

where
search_for[strlen(search_for)-1] = '\0'
replaces the last inputted character.
should it be
search_for[strlen(search_for)] = '\0';
instead?

Hi David! 
I am working through your (so far great) book on C (Head First C), and spotted a peculiarity in the code:
in section 2.5, under "It's time for a code review", the code states:

int main()
{
    char search_for[80];
    printf("Search for: ");
    scanf("%79s", search_for);
    search_for[strlen(search_for)-1] = '\0';
    find_track(search_for);
    return 0;
}

where  
    search_for[strlen(search_for)-1] = '\0'
replaces the last inputted character.
should it be 
    search_for[strlen(search_for)] = '\0';
instead?
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