Thread: how to copy strings from mid way through

hi all
i have used a combination of strchr and strncpy to get the string name so i could create the file. now i need to copy the contents of the file so i can put it into the file i had just created. because this starts from mideway im just finding it a little tricky. everything is saved in a format in 1 file now i am trying to extract everything from this file so i could recreate the files they once were.

if there was a way to carry on reading the file after the loop or if there is a way to just read the file midway through the with only the point indicators starting start and finish

kind regards

im guessing the answer lies in string.h so thats what im going to research

A FILE keeps a "read pointer", which is roughly "this is where the last thing that was read stopped, and therefore this is where the next thing that is read will start". If you go through the whole file and then go back, you can do a tell/seek to keep track of a particular place.

im a complete stranger to the tell and seek functions
ive just done some research on both of them and didnt understand them well enough

could you shine some light please

i had though the system would keep a pointer at where it had finished but for some odd reason it hadnt and it started from the start of the string

Let's say you are only interested in file contents that's only between "start" and "finish" words., how would you know which part of file has the word start?
You don't. you have to search that word (by reading the file).
If you post the sample input file and explain clearly what you are trying to do, we could help in more details..

Originally Posted by stephen101

i had though the system would keep a pointer at where it had finished but for some odd reason it hadnt and it started from the start of the string

So you need to keep your words straight. The title of the thread is reading from the middle of the string. The first post was reading from the middle of a file. Now we're back to reading from the middle of a string again. You need to decide what you have, first, and then we can discuss what to do from there.