Thread: How to discard the rest of the characters in a string?

Because I need to be able to compare and subtract the time with the previous string (record) ...

Originally Posted by Salem

Code:

                        /* zero out the unwanted characters */
                        for (i=18; i<SIZE; i++) {
                                croppedString[i] = '\0';
                        }
                        croppedTime = RemoveColon (croppedTime, mytime);
                        int convertedNum = atoi(croppedTime);

I don't know why you need any of this.
hh:mm:ss should be stored in mytime, as a direct result of the sscanf call.