Re: How to delete charcters in a string?

[Pascal Obry <p.obry@wanadoo.fr>]

Stephen Leake <stephen.a.leake.1@gsfc.nasa.gov> writes:

> 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 :).

And that is not what you wanted too :)

 result in *S1 is "ABDEFF".

Pascal.

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