wruppert - 4:08 am on Sep 15, 2007 (gmt 0)

Perl was invented to make this stuff easy. String manipulation in C is a pain. It has been a few years since I wrote any C, so I may have messed up the syntax a bit. I would have done something like this:

char* skip_colons (char* src, char* dest) { 
 char* s = src; 
 char* d = dest; 
 while (*s++) { 
  if (*s!= ':') { 
   *d++ = *s; 
  } 
 } 
 *d = '\0'; 
 return dest; 
}