Thread: insert a char anywhere in a string

Hello, is there a function with which i can add characters anywhere in a string? i have been searching for something like that but i cant find anything. Should i do my own functions for something like that? Does anything like stringbuffer apply in C?

Thanks.

There is no standard function; you'll have to do it on your own.

You'll probably want to use memmove() to copy part of the string to the right so there's space to insert your new character(s). Don't forget to make sure that there's enough space past the end of the string to copy into. If not, you'll have to expand the buffer with realloc() if you allocated it with malloc(), or copy it into a whole new buffer.

C is not the world's best language for text processing.

thanks!

but can i choose the position where memmove will start copying the string? or it always starts from the beginning of the string? can i do that with a pointer?

Originally Posted by panosstylianou

thanks!

but can i choose the position where memmove will start copying the string? or it always starts from the beginning of the string? can i do that with a pointer?

Yes.

Code:

char *a = "abcd";
char *b = "wxyz";

memmove(&a[1], &b[0], 4); /*will move b (starting at pos. 0) to a (starting at pos. 1) */

memmove(a + 1, b + 0, 4); /*will do the exact same thing */