added string_utils and strcpy_safe

slsSupportLib/include/container_utils.h

@@ -98,6 +98,8 @@ T minusOneIfDifferent(const std::vector<T>& container)
     }
 }
 
+
+
 //TODO!(Erik)Should try to move away from using this in the slsDetectorPackage
 inline
 std::string concatenateIfDifferent(std::vector<std::string> container)

slsSupportLib/include/string_utils.h

@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+namespace sls {
+
+/* Implementation of a safe string copy function for setting fields in 
+for example the multi sls detector. It tries to copy the size of the 
+destination from the source, stopping on '\0'. 
+
+Warning this would truncate the source string and should be used with care. 
+Still this is better than strcpy...
+*/
+template <size_t array_size>
+void strcpy_safe(char (&destination)[array_size], const char *source) {
+    strncpy(destination, source, array_size);
+    destination[array_size - 1] = '\0';
+}
+
+
+}; // namespace sls

slsSupportLib/src/string_utils.cpp

@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+
+// #include <cstring>
+// namespace sls{
+
+// void strcpy_safe(char *dst, const char *src, size_t size){
+//     strncpy(dst, src, size);
+// }
+
+// };