Question

Simple question (I think), in C, I was able to scan in an entire line using:

fgets(line, MAX, input);
printf("%s\n", line);

Where it would, for example, print “Please cut me in half”, how do I only get “me in half”, including white spaces.

Answer 1

You do not know where the middle is until you scan the whole line. But you can scan the entire line, and then print only the second half, like this:

printf("%s\n", line+strlen(line)/2);

This is how the above code works: strlen determines the length of the entire string (21), then we divide it in half using integer division (10), add it to the pointer to the beginning of the line, and pass the result to printf.