string to int

[camilord]

i don't know where to post.. but it seems C in linux is similar to perl.. :)

anyway, my question is..

how can i rid off the colon (:) so that i can convert into integer.

sample...

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int main()
{
char tmp = ":212:";
int mutated = 0;

//mutated = (int)(tmp); //converting to int...
//operation goes here...
}

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how can i remove the colons so that i can convert it into integers...

[edited by: coopster at 6:22 pm (utc) on Sep. 17, 2007]
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[wruppert]

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; 
}