Re: sub string

[Arcterex <alan ufies org>]

On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 09:53:19AM -0500, defcon5@ec-red.com wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I have in the variable  gchar *aux = "name_of_directory/name_of_file";
> I want to copy only the substring /name_of_file to another gchar ...
> how can i do that??
> with strtok??

You can do it with strtok or what I use is rindex: 

strcpy( new_string, rindex( aux, '/' ));

is one way to do it.  This is pure C though, I don't know if there is a gtk*
way of doing it :)

Regards,

Alan

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