Thread: strings

Hi! I'm pretty new to C so this might seem like a dumb question.
I need to compare a string (ex: string=abcde) and compare it with one character (ex: char=c) and if there is a character in the string that is the same as "c", take that character out and return the string "cleaned" if you will.
So the program would give back "abde".
I was wondering if there is a way to suppress(I don't know if thats how you say it) a character in a string. So like if I were to say

for(i=0;i<5;i++)
if (string[i]==char)
string[i]="/0"

or something like that.
Thanks!

What I would do is write a loop that steps through every element of the string, and if it _isn't_ that character you are looking for, copy it to another string.

So you'll need two indexes to keep track of. Where you are in the original string, and where you are in the target string.

Ya wut he said...

I suppose you could get creative with strchr() or strtok().

Ooh yes - strtok in a loop with strcpy would be a very neat algorithm in code...