MID$

You question is kind of like asking what's the French word for "the". It could be "Le", "La", or "Les". There is no one-to-one conversion.

First, the C language does not have a string type. So, there are no functions that work on strings the way they do in basic.

Second, in C, you use an array of characters to hold a string. It is a string, but to the language and to the programmer it is an array of characters.

The following example program will do in C what the mid function in basic does.

char a[] = "testing";
char b[10];

strncpy (b, a[2], 2);

You question is kind of like asking what's the French word for "the". It could be "Le", "La", or "Les". There is no one-to-one conversion.

First, the C language does not have a string type. So, there are no functions that work on strings the way they do in basic.

Second, in C, you use an array of characters to hold a string. It is a string, but to the language and to the programmer it is an array of characters.

The following example program will do in C what the mid function in basic does.

char a[] = "testing";
char b[10];

strncpy (b, a[2], 2);

If you don't already understand the simple data types in C, you should get a copy of the K&R book and read it to learn C

That is probably the very worst book to learn C from.

Erik

Yes, I would tend to agree that K&R is more of a reference manual than a self-instruction tool!