uremove(3alleg4)

✨ uremove — the manual page, but make it cute ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to the Allegro manual, section 3, page uremove 🎀 this one's from the Allegro game programming library and it's literally so simple you're gonna slay it.

🌸 NAME 🌸

uremove</purl> — Removes a character from a string. Allegro game programming library. 💅

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

#include <allegro.h>

int uremove(char *s, int index);

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so basically, uremove takes the character sitting at the index you give it inside the string, yeets it into the void 🗑️✨, and then slides all the rest of the data back to fill the gap. no holes left behind, no awkward silence, the string just closes ranks like a group chat after someone leaves. 👑

and listen — if index is negative, it counts <em>backward from the end</em> of the string. so -1 is the last character, -2 is the one before that, you get it. iykyk. 🧚

Example, because seeing it is believing:

int length_in_bytes = ustrsizez(text_string);
...
length_in_bytes -= uremove(text_string, -1);

see how that works? chop the last char off, and subtract however many bytes got shuffled from your running length. chef's kiss. 🍓

⭐ RETURN VALUE ⭐

It returns the number of bytes by which the trailing part of the string was moved. that's it, that's the number. no cap. 🔥

🫶 SEE ALSO 🫶

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

💀 heads up bestie: index is just a raw index — uremove does not do bounds-checking magic for you, so know where you're pointing before you swing. 🙈

okay that's the whole page, you ate it fr fr 👑💖 this was Allegro, version 4.4.3, manual page uremove(3alleg4) — go forth and remove some characters, main character energy only ✨🦋🎀