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Nicklas Lindgren wrote:
> 
> Are there any functions in libc for picking substrings out of strings?
> 
>         Nicklas Lindgren

you could use this bit of code (or slight modification thereof):

to put n characters of string source at position p into dest:

void mid(char *dest, char *source, int p, int n)
{
char *c=source[p];

strncpy(dest,c,n);
dest[n]=0;
}