Removing substring from a string?

Question

I have a C function, which takes a string called \'buffer\', and parses it, it will match keywords and use that to assign values in a structure.

However, some keywor

Answer 1

Instead of removing them, you could just ignore them, for example like this:

#define KEY_TO_IGNORE "CHARSET=UTF-8"

char key[80];
char value[80];
char *text = "FN;CHARSET=UTF-8:David Celery";

sscanf(text, "%2s;" KEY_TO_IGNORE ":%s", key, value);

printf("key: %s, value: %s\n", key, value);