The original poster wanted both saved into separate strings. Here's an example of what I was implying.
/* it's up to you to define the sizes or malloc them */ char *original="5678"; char *string1; char *string2; /* save the first character into another string */ sprintf(string1, "%c", original[0]); /* save the rest into another string */ strcpy(string2, index(original, original[0])); Viola! > -----Original Message----- > From: Richard Lindsey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2004 12:44 PM > To: Jason Gauthier; Tristan M; [email protected] > Subject: RE: isolating 1 character from a string > > Doesn't index search for the first occurrence of a particular > character in the string? I think what he's looking for is > just the left-most character everytime, regardless of what it > is, which could be done like this (if you want the rest of > the string to go into another variable): > > char firstchar; > > if ( argument[0] != '\0' ) > { > firstchar = argument[0]; > argument++; > } > > that would first check to see if the user didn't enter an > argument, and if they did, assign the first letter (or > number) of that argument to 'firstchar', and then increment > the space pointed to by argument so that if argument == 5678, > firstchar would = 5, and argument would then = 678... if you > want to use this only for numbers, you can simply add a check > for !is_number(argument) before you split off the values, and > spit out an error message if the entire string isn't a number > (i.e. 5678a)... > > Richard Lindsey > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jason Gauthier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2004 11:12 AM > To: Tristan M; [email protected] > Subject: RE: isolating 1 character from a string > > You can do this with index(). > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Tristan M [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2004 12:02 PM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: isolating 1 character from a string > > > > Hey, first off thanks for all the help recently, you guys > have solved > > all my problems ive given you so far:) but heres a new one, > > > > what id like to do is make the code isolate one character from the > > left, like visual basic's left(). > > > > this is what i want: > > > > i have a value, say 5678 > > i want to return only the 5 to one string and the 678 to another > > > > is there any way to do this? ive been searching all over > the net with > > no luck > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-ca&page=byoa/prem&xAPID=1994&; > > DI=1034&SU=http://hotmail.com/enca&HL=Market_MSNIS_Taglines > > > > > > -- > > ROM mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://www.rom.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rom > > > > -- > ROM mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.rom.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rom >
