How do I delete a string w/in a string?

[aspand]

hi,
say I have an array of strings consisting of:
Hello
Wassup
Bye
Now
Laterz

and I want to remove the string Bye...how do I do that..I need to make sure that when I print it..all I get now is:
Hello
Wassup
Now
Laterz
???
Help please
A

[face_master]

Try this (I may have messed up with the ['s and ]'s, though):

string greetings[] = {Hello, Wassup, Bye, Now, Laterz};

greetings[2] = greetings[3];
greetings[3] = greetings[4];
greetings[4] = "";

I havn't tested it though, so it might need some 'tweaking'.

[Magos]

Higly depends on how you constructed your "string of strings".
Is it one string containing words with spaces between, or is it an array of pointers pointing to strings?

Hmm, I have never used the string class as shown in Face_Masters example. Where can I get the lib?

[Hammer]

>Where can I get the lib?
from a c++ compiler I expect!

[face_master]

i've never tried that before, i just made it up on the spot...i wonder if it works?

[Hammer]

Here ya go:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>

#define REMOVE_ITEM 2

int main(void)
{
	char myarray[][20] = {"Hello", "Wassup", "Bye", "Now", "Laterz"};
	int i, items_in_array = sizeof(myarray) / 20;
	
	for (i = 0; i < items_in_array; i++)
		printf ("Array item %d is %s\n", i, myarray[i]);
	
	for (i = REMOVE_ITEM; i < items_in_array - 1; i++)
		strcpy(myarray[i], myarray[i+1]);
	
	myarray[items_in_array-1][0] = '\0';
	
	printf ("After Delete:\n");
	for (i = 0; i < items_in_array; i++)
		printf ("Array item %d is %s\n", i, myarray[i]);
		
	return (0);
	
}

/* Program Output:
Array item 0 is Hello
Array item 1 is Wassup
Array item 2 is Bye
Array item 3 is Now
Array item 4 is Laterz
After Delete:
Array item 0 is Hello
Array item 1 is Wassup
Array item 2 is Now
Array item 3 is Laterz
Array item 4 is (null)
*/

[face_master]

Yep, I'd say that's better than mine

[aspand]

But say..that I need to remove more names & don't know which names to remove...that depends on the functions preceding it..how would I modfiy the code to do so??
I need it to work in a loop..and the e.g I gave was hypothetical..
a

[Hammer]

Originally posted by aspand
But say..that I need to remove more names & don't know which names to remove...that depends on the functions preceding it..how would I modfiy the code to do so??
I need it to work in a loop..and the e.g I gave was hypothetical..
a

Stick the for loop in a function, make the function take an array and an int as arguments.
In another function (maybe), have another loop that starts at element 0 of the array and loops through it using strcmp() to find elements matching your criteria. If it finds one, it calls the earlier function telling it what element number to remove from the array. Clear as mud I know... but the ya go, it's been a long day