1 /* substring.c -- extract substring.
2 $Id: substring.c,v 1.5 2007/07/01 21:20:31 karl Exp $
4 Copyright (C) 1999, 2004, 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
6 This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
7 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
8 the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
9 (at your option) any later version.
11 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
12 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
13 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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16 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
17 along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
22 substring (const char *start, const char *end)
24 char *result = xmalloc (end - start + 1);
25 char *scan_result = result;
26 const char *scan = start;
29 *scan_result++ = *scan++;