rcdelete.c File Reference

Provides the rcdelete function for string manipulation. More...

#include "mdb.h"
#include <ctype.h>

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Functions
char *	rcdelete (char *s, char c0, char c1)
	Deletes from a string every instance of any character between two specified ASCII characters, inclusive.

Detailed Description

Provides the rcdelete function for string manipulation.

Copyright

• (c) 2002 The University of Chicago, as Operator of Argonne National Laboratory.
• (c) 2002 The Regents of the University of California, as Operator of Los Alamos National Laboratory.

License

This file is distributed under the terms of the Software License Agreement found in the file LICENSE included with this distribution.

Author

M. Borland, C. Saunders, R. Soliday

Definition in file rcdelete.c.

Function Documentation

rcdelete()

char * rcdelete	(	char *	s,
		char	c0,
		char	c1 )

Deletes from a string every instance of any character between two specified ASCII characters, inclusive.

This function iterates through the input string and removes any character that falls within the specified range [c0, c1] in the ASCII table.

Parameters

s	The input string to be modified.
c0	The lower bound character in the ASCII range.
c1	The upper bound character in the ASCII range.

Returns

The modified string with specified characters removed.

Definition at line 29 of file rcdelete.c.

                                          {
  register char *ptr0, *ptr1;
 
  ptr0 = ptr1 = s;
  while (*ptr1) {
    if (*ptr1 < c0 || *ptr1 > c1)
      *ptr0++ = *ptr1++;
    else
      ptr1++;
  }
  *ptr0 = 0;
  return (s);
}