How to remove all occurrences of a given character from string in C?

Question

I\'m attempting to remove a character from a string in C. The problem I am having with my code is that it removes the first instance of the character from the string but als

Answer 1

i know that it is a type of duplicate answer, but this code is function's version for solving the problem. I thought that as the questioner was a beginner, he might learn much from decomposed version of problem.

int del_x_char(char *p, int x)
{
    char *q;
    x=first_occurance(p, 'i')/*you can replace any character that you want delete with 'i'*/
    q=p+x;
    while(*q=*(q+1))
        q++;
    *q='\0';
    return 0;
}
int first_occurance(char *q, char phar)
{
    int i=0;
    while(*q)
    {   
        if(*q++==phar)
            return i;
        i++;
    }
    return -1;
}