Text extraction

Hi,
I ahve a long string of which I want to remove certain words....

for example:
string example =" <this> is some <test> data"

I want to remove words with are contained with "<>"...so after my programs runs I would be left with

<"is some data">

does anybody have idea's what function I could use...to remove such text from the string...
any ideas would be great...
thank

A for loop and a boolean variable used to control the copying of chars

You set the bool to false when you see a <
You set it to true when you see a >

If it's true, copy the char

Try this. Keep in mind, the code will modify the string directly.

Code:

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#include <string.h>

void RemoveWords(char *str);

int main(int argc, char* argv[])
{
        char str[81];

        strcpy(str, "<this> is some <test> data");

        RemoveWords(str);

        return 0;
}

void
RemoveWords(char *str)
{
#define                START_CHAR                '<'
#define                END_CHAR                '>'
        char *p;
        char *t;

        p = str;
        t = p;

        while (*t)                        // while we haven't found the end of the string
        {
                if (*t == START_CHAR)
                {
                        while (*t && *t != END_CHAR) // look for the END_CHAR
                        {
                                t++;
                        }
                        t++;                // skip the END_CHAR
                }
               
                *p = *t;                // finally, copy the current character
                p++;
                t++;
               
                if (*t == '\0')
                        *p = '\0';
        }
}

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