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

Answer 1

as it is suggested in the message, use _CRT_SECURE_NO_WARNINGS to disable this warnings.

in ProjectProperties -> Configuration Properties -> C/C++ -> Preprocessor -> Preprocessor Definitions, add following macros:

_CRT_SECURE_NO_WARNINGS