character substring

Is there something out there that would allow me to take a substring of a character not a string? My character is a path name and I need to take the substring of the drive letter (i.e. C:\) only!

my post was lost....any suggestions!!!!!!

Gee, that sounds like a routine you could write yourself!

I mean, golly gosh! since the string you have is just an array of characters, at the very least you could smatter together a routine like this (not how I would do it)--

Code:

int main(void);
void getdrivestring(char*,char*);


int main(void)
   {
   char driveString[4];                       /* just enough to hold device letter */
   char path[] = "C:/Windows/System";

   getdrivestring(path,driveString);  /* parse out the letter */
   
   return(0);
   }

void getdrivestring(char *a,char *b)
   {
   int  i;

   for(i=0;i<3;i++)
      b[i] = a[i];                                  /* copy first 3 letters */

   b[3] = 0x00;                                 /* length terminating byte */
   }

seems rather brute-force, yet it would do the trick, eh?

PROBLEMS ALL RESOLVED...THANKS FOR SUGGESTIONS!