Question

I have two strings:

prettyCoolString
CoolString

I want to only get the part that says pretty. I looked through the C string functions, but I cannot find out how to find the position of CoolString in prettyCoolString.

In Java, I can just find where CoolString appears in prettyCoolString, but with C, all I can do is return a pointer to the place where it begins. I want to find the position so I can just read the first x characters from prettyCoolString.

Here is what I mean by first part:
I want to get the contents of the first string that appear before the second string appears in the first string.

Answer 1

Try something like this:

char *source = "prettyCoolString";
char *find = "CoolString";

char dest[LENGTH];
char *p = strstr(source, find);
strncpy(dest, source, p - source);