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From: Stephen Leake <stephen.a.leake.1@gsfc.nasa.gov>
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Subject: Re: How to delete charcters in a string?
Date: 01 Feb 2002 10:56:17 -0500
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tmoran@acm.org writes:

> >the techniques you may have learned for dealing with dynamic C
> >strings are liable to be completely inappropriate for dealing with
> >fixed Ada strings.

>   How would you delete a character from a C string?  Seems to me that's
> probably harder that with an Ada string (lack of slice assignment),

char *S1 = "ABCDEF";

strncpy (S1 + 3, S1 + 4, 3);

result in *S1 is "ABDEF".

No where near as pretty or readable as Ada, but just as short and
easy. And I've probably got the "src" and "dest" parameters swapped.
Man, I hate C :).

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-- Stephe