On Wed, 30 Jun 1999, Ray Olszewski wrote:

> Here are some ideas that might work for you:
> 
> 1. To find the first space, use brute force. Something like:
>         for ( i = 0 ; i < strlen(teststring) ; i++ )
>                 {
>                 if ( teststring[i] == " " )
>                          break  ;
>                 }       ;

Why not just

   for(i=0;teststring[i]!=0 && teststring[i]!=' ';i++);

which will do exactly the same thing.

> BTW, linux-newbie doesn't seem like the best place to pose this question ...
> but I don't know where would be. Does anyone else have a suggestion?

I believe there is a C programming list on vger.
> 
> At 05:51 PM 6/30/99 EDT, Michael B Golden wrote:
> >     I was trying to work on a C program, but I can't figure out how
> >to do some
> >things. What I am looking for is a command in C similar to the mid$
> >command in Visual Basic. i

Frank

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