How to get rid of “unsafe” warnings / errors in Visual Studio (strcpy, sprintf, strdup)

Question

I\'m trying to get rid of some compiler warnings that say strcpy, sprintf, etc are unsafe. I get why they\'re unsafe, but I can\'t think of a good way to fix the code, in a

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#ifdef _MSC_VER
#pragma warning(push)
#pragma warning(disable : 4996)
#endif

        strcpy(destination, source);

#ifdef _MSC_VER
#pragma warning(pop)
#endif