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I'm trying to parse a rather large string in C. I know how to find what I'm looking for, BUT the problem is that when I find what I'm looking for, I want to pull out say, the next 100 characters and put that in a separate string. Is this possible? I can't think of a way to do it, any help is appreciated.
Apr 7 '07 #1
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nmadct
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This should be easy if I understand it correctly. Once you find what you're looking for, simply copy the text from that offset to the next N characters into another buffer. Are you thinking of some kind of "cut" operation where that section is removed from the original operation as well? Just move the text that follows the cut section back to the place where the cut section started. (You'd wanna use memmove for this.) Obviously moving a huge chunk of text isn't always ideal; another method would be to use some special marker to indicate that there's a gap in the string buffer.
Apr 7 '07 #2
weaknessforcats
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Check out strncpy().
Apr 8 '07 #3

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