Delete first two characters

[darko886]

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 =]

[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.

[darko886]

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.

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