cnfImpn - Import no more than max characters from a FORTRAN string into a C string

Description:

Import a FORTRAN string into a C string, up to a maximum of `max' characters discarding trailing blanks. The null character is appended to the C string after the last non-blank character.

Invocation:

cnfImpn( source_f, source_len, max, dest_c )

Arguments:

const char *source_f (Given)

A pointer to the input FORTRAN string

int source_len (Given)

The length of the input FORTRAN string

int max (Given)

The maximum number of characters to be copied from the input FORTRAN string to the output C string

char *dest_c (Returned via pointer)

A pointer to the output C string

Notes:

No check is made that there is sufficient space allocated to the C string to hold the FORTRAN string and a terminating null. It is the responsibility of the programmer to check this.