removing first bit from the word

[spanian2708]

Hello,

I have a code like this :

pstSimPOIInfo[uiI].ppcName[ucCount] = realloc(pstSimPOIInfo[uiI].ppcName[ucCount], (usLen+strlen(CountryName)+4));
memset(pstSimPOIInfo[uiI].ppcName[ucCount], 0, (usLen+strlen(CountryName)+4));
strncpy((char *)pstSimPOIInfo[uiI].ppcName[ucCount], CityName, strlen(CityName)) strcat(pstSimPOIInfo[uiI].ppcName[ucCount], ","); strcat(pstSimPOIInfo[uiI].ppcName[ucCount], CountryName);

This displays:
CityName, CountryName like below:
^PCERFONTAINE,^PFRANCE
^PFERRIE-LA-PETITE, ^PFRANCE
^PQUIELON, ^PFRANCE
^PESMES, ^PFRANCE

I would like to remove the first bit "^P" and display it....

How do i do it???

Thankx
Jazz

[rockytriton]

mystring[0];

[Ancient Dragon]

the title of your thread is wrong -- you want to remove the first byte from the string (not bits).

printf("%s\n", &mystring[1]);

or you could shift all bytes left

strcpy(mystring,&mystring[1]);

BTW: I've never found strncpy() a very useful function when copying null-terminated strings. strcpy does exactly the same thing that you posted, and has fewer parameters. Usually that third parameter is the size of the destination buffer, not the length of the source string, to avoid buffer overflows.

[rockytriton]

another thread I completely misread, I think my mind is going.