Re: [NEWBIE] Cutting chars 11, 98 06:04:36 am"

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Greetings,

Roger Smith wrote:
> What is the best way to cut off the end of a char?
>
> char monkey = "poop";

This is a bad example...you can't assign a string constant to
a single char. Either:

char *monkey = "poop";
(however! This is a constant, it can't be changed...)

or: (and what you want)

char monkey[8192];
strcpy(monkey, "poop");

or:

char *monkey;
monkey = strdup("poop");

and

now you can do a simple:
monkey[strlen(monkey)-1] = '\0';

However, for the sanity of your code, the life of your hamster etc. make
sure that monkey is not of zero-length.

- Chris


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