[STRINGS] Delete all chars before mark

[EddyWally]

Hi there.

I'm writing a simple system to order certain data.
Now this is the deal: I have a bunch of files with the following filename structures (stored as strings):
0000[i]_FILENAME.EXT

i represents a random number. Now I want to scan whether the file has that structure, and if it has that structure, it should rename it to FILENAME.EXT.

So basically, I want to program to check whether a certain structure is present in the filename, and if so, it should rename the string.

Any ideas how on how to solve this problem?

Thanks in advance!

Eddy Wally

[Salem]

Something like this?

char filename[] = "00001234_FILENAME.EXT";
char newfilename[100];
if ( sscanf( filename, "0000%*d_%s", newfilename) == 1 ) {
  // format seems to be as expected
  rename(filename,newfilename);
}

[EddyWally]

That's amazing! Thank you very much!