this has been puzzling me for some time now, i've heard that it can be done with strtok() but i cant get my head around it....
basically i want to split a 4 character string i.e. 'ABCD' in half, and store the results into two different variables. so, if the string x is equal to 'ABCD', then i want to make y = 'AB' and z = 'CD'. what is the easiest way to do this?
strncpy
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Simplest code to solve exactly the problem you describe:
However, I expect that you don't always have 4-letter strings that you want to make into two-letter strings, and then the problem gets a bit hairier.Code:char x[] = "ABCD"; char y[3]; char z[3]; y[0] = x[0]; y[1] = x[1]; y[2] = 0; z[0] = x[2]; z[1] = x[3]; z[2] = 0;
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Mats
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matsp, the strings are always 4 characters long but sometimes they may contain numbers although I dont think this would matter in the example you showed me before. thanks.
vart, could you possibly elaborate? i'm aware that strncpy() copies no more than a set number of bytes, but how would this apply to my question?
cheers guys.
you can ask it to copy 2 bytes from the original string...Originally Posted by newbie_socketsp
but if it is always 2 bytes - using Mats's method is better
All problems in computer science can be solved by another level of indirection,
except for the problem of too many layers of indirection.
– David J. Wheeler
