Stripping quotes from a string

Hi all,

Maybe someone can help me with this problem. I'm trying to replace two following quotes in a string to one quote. For example:

L 03/15/2006 - 18:17:17: Rcon: "rcon 1033369585 "password" kick "blabla bla bla"" from "123.123.123.123:1234"

I'm currently using strtok at the quotes to split the complete string in pieces, which i place in an array. Most of the time there are no double sets of quotes (like shown in bold in the example), but sometimes they pop up because someone uses quotes in a rcon command on our gameservers.

This is when the problem occures. Because i split on the quotes, the array gets shifted, and i get the wrong info when i use that array.

Is there a way to replace the "" with " so i can use the normal array again? I've tried searching for a good replacement function, but they are hard to find. Even when there are lots of topics about it. Can anyone help me fix this problem?

It's probably easy for the experts here, but i'm very new in C :)

Use strstr() to find "", and shift the array to the left.

[edit]
You might want to shift the array with memmove().
[/edit]

Hmm, good suggestion!

I've got it to work with this piece of code code:

Code:

---

  ptr = strstr(my_input_string,"\"\"");
  if(ptr != 0)
  {
      len = strlen(ptr+2);
      // the string exists
      memmove(ptr, ptr+1,strlen(ptr+1));
      // now null-terminate the string
      ptr[len] = 0;
  }

---

But i already ran into the next problem which i overlooked. Is it also possible to remove the quote prior to the one i found? Is there a way to reverse-search (and destroy! ;)) the previous quote, when i find a double quote like above?

I mean the bold char:
log L 03/15/2006 - 19:05:51: Rcon: "rcon 1033369585 "password" kick "blabla bla bla" from "123.123.123.123:1234"

Never mind!.. fix it in a different way, by counting the number of string in the array and changing the output. Thnx for your help dwks!