strdel3pub
Delete characters from beginning of string
Usage
#include <publib.h> char *strdel(char *s, size_t n);
Overview
strdel removes the first n characters of s. If n is greater than the length of the string, all characters in the string (not counting '\0') are removed but no more.
Return value
strdel returns its first argument.
Examples
To change all occurrences of "Pascal" in the input to "Yuck!", you might do the following:
#include <string.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <publib.h>
int main(void) {
char line[512];
while (fgets(line, sizeof(line), stdio) != NULL) {
while ((p = strstr(line, "Pascal")) != NULL) {
strdel(p, 6);
strins(p, "Yuck!");
}
printf("%s", line);
}
return 0;
}
Releases
16 releases since Debian 1.2 (Rex); the text changed 5 times.