al_ustr_truncate(3alleg5)

💖 al_ustr_truncate 💖

okay bestie, so this one lives in the Allegro 5 API manual (yes, that Allegro, the allegro5 section 3 one), and it's lowkey one of the most useful little string gremlins you'll ever meet ✨

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

#include <allegro5/allegro.h>

bool al_ustr_truncate(ALLEGRO_USTR *us, int start_pos)

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🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

So what it does: it truncates a chunk of the string starting from the byte offset start_pos and going all the way onwards 🌸 basically chopping off the tail like "bye bestie, we're done here 💅"

The way that start_pos works: you can pass a value past the end of the string and it's literally fine, it just does nothing at all (no effect, no drama 🙈). But you absolutely cannot go below 0 — that's not it, don't do that 🚫

And the return vibe? It gives back true on success and false on error, periodt ⭐

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• al_ustr_remove_range(3alleg5)
• al_ustr_ltrim_ws(3alleg5)
• al_ustr_rtrim_ws(3alleg5)
• al_ustr_trim_ws(3alleg5)

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and that's the whole page, no cap 🦋 this came straight out of the Allegro reference manual for al_ustr_truncate(3alleg5) — go forth and truncate responsibly, you absolute icon 👑💜