remove array element

[Ash Mo Naiming]

i want to a C program to delete an element from an array which can use both index method & character method
For example
input : "1 222 333 4444"
output:"1 22 333 4444"
if either index = "4" or character ="2" is entered
it should able to read in/accept any input array of varying length, and the position/index or element in array to be deleted

[nonpuz]

To delete from an array you have to shift every element past the one you delete to the left by 1. If it is the last element in the array, you just set it to 0.

Post some code and we'll help with any problems.

[nonpuz]

By the way,how do you plan on identifying if the argument entered is an index or an element value? In your example the values are both integers so there is no distinction (other then possibly the bounds of the array).

[Ash Mo Naiming]

By the way,how do you plan on identifying if the argument entered is an index or an element value? In your example the values are both integers so there is no distinction (other then possibly the bounds of the array).

make a menu for it?for the user to choose

[c99tutorial]

i want to a C program to delete an element from an array which can use both index method & character method
For example
input : "1 222 333 4444"
output:"1 22 333 4444"
if either index = "4" or character ="2" is entered

This is what "memmove" and strchr, and strrchr are for. strchr and strrchr return a pointer to where a certain character is. So define a delete_elem function to take a pointer argument like this

void delete_elem(char *arr, size_t n, char *s) { 
    memmove(s, s+1, n-(s-arr));
}

The s points to where you want to delete.

char telephone[] = "1 234 456 6789";

// delete character at index 2
delete_elem(telephone, sizeof(telephone), &telephone[2]);

// delete first occurence of '4'
delete_elem(telephone, sizeof(telephone), strchr(telephone, '4'));

// delete last occurence of '6'
delete_elem(telephone, sizeof(telephone), strrchr(telephone, '6'));

[c99tutorial]

UPDATE: There is a typo in the above, it should be

void delete_elem(char *arr, size_t n, char *s) { 
    memmove(s, s+1, n-(s-arr)-1);
}

[Ash Mo Naiming]

THANK YOU! c99tutorial , nonpuz
i have successfully code out the thingy
thank you v.v.v.v.v.v.v. much!!!