STRDEL(3pub)

💖 STRDEL(3pub) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the strdel page from the C Programmer's Manual (section 3pub, publib girlies rise) — it's giving "snip the front off a string" and honestly? iconic. ✂️✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

strdel — delete characters from beginning of string 🦋

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

#include <publib.h>
char *strdel(char *s, size_t n);

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

so basically, strdel removes the first n characters of s. that's it. that's the whole job. she's a simple queen. 👑

and if n is bigger than the length of the string? no cap, it removes all the characters in the string — but like, not counting '\0' — and no more than that. it does not go off the end and start deleting random memory, she is way too classy for that. 🙈

🫶 RETURN VALUE 🫶

strdel returns its first argument. just hands it right back to you. main character behavior, honestly. 💖

🎀 EXAMPLE 🎀

say you wanna change all occurrences of "Pascal" in the input to "Yuck!" — relatable, honestly — you might do the following:

#include <string.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <publib.h>

int main(void) {
     char line[512];

     while (fgets(line, sizeof(line), stdio) != NULL) {
          while ((p = strstr(line, "Pascal")) != NULL) {
               strdel(p, 6);
               strins(p, "Yuck!");
          }
          printf("%s", line);
     }
     return 0;
}

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• publib(3)
• strins(3)

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Lars Wirzenius (lars.wirzenius@helsinki.fi) — the legend himself 💜

and that's the whole page, bestie!! this was Publib's C Programmer's Manual, STRDEL(3pub) — go forth and delete those leading characters fr fr 🦋✨💖