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Aug 27th, 2007

How to clear a string

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How do you clear a string in a single statement ?
for egs. i want to clear name[20] of all its contents and leave it completely empty

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Re: How to clear a string

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How do you clear a string in a single statement ?
for egs. i want to clear name[20] of all its contents and leave it completely empty

Please help

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  const char *str="SpS";
  cout << str;
  str = NULL;
  const char *str="SpS";
  cout << str;
  str = NULL;

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Re: How to clear a string

It's a character string? Just set the first character to be a terminator and it'll be treated as "".

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name[0] = '\0';
name[0] = '\0';

If it's a C++ string you can call the clear method and that truncates the string to be "".

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name.clear();
name.clear();

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Re: How to clear a string

Are you talking about C++ strings or C-style char arrays? (I assume you're talking about char arrays, based on your post)

What do you mean by "completely empty"?

You can make a C++ string blank by doing this

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std::string name = "hello";
std::cout << name;
 
//Assign 'name' a blank string
name = ""; 
std::cout << name;
std::string name = "hello";
std::cout << name;

//Assign 'name' a blank string
name = ""; 
std::cout << name;

for a C-style char array, you could do this

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char name[20] = "fred";
std::cout << name;
 
//If the first character is a null terminator, the string is 'empty'.
name[0] = '\0' ;
std::cout << name;
char name[20] = "fred";
std::cout << name;

//If the first character is a null terminator, the string is 'empty'.
name[0] = '\0' ;
std::cout << name;

Or do you wish to iterate through every element and set each one to zero? (You can do that with a loop, although there's not much point.)

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im using turbo c++
and none of the methods that u guys have mentioned seem to work

name[20] is a character array

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Re: How to clear a string

Please post the code you have so far...

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Okay then, what are you doing exactly?

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How do you clear a string in a single statement ?
for egs. i want to clear name[20] of all its contents and leave it completely empty

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   char name[20];
   memset(name, 0, sizeof name);
   char name[20];
   memset(name, 0, sizeof name);

Although typically clearing all elements of a string is unnecessary.

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Re: How to clear a string

thanx a lot !!!

memset works .

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You should have posted the code for the others you have tried and the error messages or problems you encountered. The problem is unlikely to be with their code but rather how you typed it in or if you're using the outdated version of turbo c, which is probably very likely

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