Thread: Removing end of line marker

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    Removing end of line marker

    I am reading some data from file. One of the data is stored in a character array. The file has some end of line delimeter. As a result I the character array is also getting the end of line dilimeter . My question is how to remove this end of line delimeter from the character.

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    You're talking about newlines, '\n'? You can use strchr() to find it's position. Then overwite it with a '\0'.

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    Create a pointer to a character, search for the last occurance of a newline, and if it's found, change it to a NUL.
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    char *p = NULL;
    char string[] = "Foo'd up beyond all repair\n";
    if((p=strrchr(string, '\n')) != NULL)
       *p = '\0';
    Last edited by whiteflags; 05-11-2006 at 12:08 PM.

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    That should be *p = '\0';
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    I fixed that. Sorry everyone! Heh.

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    You should also include <string.h>. Otherwise you'll get a warning (if you have them turned on).
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