Delete first two characters

Hello, I am a total newbie at C programming, and programming in general. I am learning though, and I need help with deleting characters from a file name. What I am trying to do is have a program that looks at a file, and renames it by deleting the first, lets say two, letters in it. So lets say the file name was testfile.exe, I would like it to be renamed to stfile.exe. What I was thinking was that I would have to use a command that gets the file name and then another command that deletes the first two letters, and then another that pastes that back using the rename() function. Would this be a good way to go at it? And if so, how could I erase the first x characters in a word?

Thank you =]

An easier way would be to call rename(), passing the pointer to the current name as the first parm, and passing another pointer, to the same old name, but incremented by 2 bytes, as the second parm.

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Originally Posted by Dino

An easier way would be to call rename(), passing the pointer to the current name as the first parm, and passing another pointer, to the same old name, but incremented by 2 bytes, as the second parm.

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Thank you very much, I was not aware that that is possible, but I will definitely look into that. I got exactly the type of answer I wanted. All you did was point me in the right direction, which is exactly what I wanted. Thank you very much =D