ugetat(3alleg4)

💖 ugetat — the manual, but make it slay 💖

okay bestie, gather round, because we're talking about ugetat from the Allegro game programming library (that's the 3alleg4 manual section, iykyk). she's a little function with one job and she does it flawlessly. ✨

✨ NAME ✨

ugetat — finds out the value of a character in a string. literally that's it, that's the whole gig. Allegro game programming library energy. 🎀

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

#include <allegro.h>

int ugetat(const char *s, int index);

yes bestie, that's the whole signature, she's compact and she knows it. 💅

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so here's the tea: ugetat finds out the character value at the specified index in the string. 🍓

• a zero index parameter will return the first character of the string. index zero is the main character, the opener, the moment. 👑
• if index is negative, it counts backward from the end of the string. so an index of -1 will return the last character of the string. negative indexing is giving time-travel, it's giving "let me check the end first", iconic behavior honestly. 🧚

example, because we love a concrete moment:

int third_letter = ugetat(text_string, 2);

not me pointing out that 2 gets you the third letter because counting starts at zero 🙈 zero-indexed girlies stay winning, no cap.

💜 RETURN VALUE 💜

returns the character value at the specified index in the string. that's the whole return value, she delivers exactly what she promises, periodt. ✨

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

her little friend group, the whole squad of string manipulators, go say hi:

• uoffset(3alleg4)
• usetat(3alleg4)
• uinsert(3alleg4)
• uremove(3alleg4)

and that's the page, bestie!! 🫶 this was Allegro, version 4.4.3, and the whole ugetat(3alleg4) moment. go index some strings responsibly, drink water, and remember: negative indices count from the end. mwah. 💖✨🎀