Question

I use function ascitime in C

   #include <time.h>
    char *asctime(const struct tm *timeptr);

    returns something like:
    Sun Sep 16 01:03:52 1973\n\0

It returns this “string”(resp. char *):

Sun Sep 16 01:03:52 1973\n\0

How can I rid of “\n” from this string? I don’t want nextline which cause “\n”.
Thx

Answer 1

The other answers seem overcomplicated. Your case is simple because you know the unwanted character is the last one in the string.

char *foo = asctime();
foo[strlen(foo) - 1] = 0;

This nulls the last character (the \n).