156160Sru/* substring.c -- extract substring. 2146515Sru $Id: substring.c,v 1.2 2004/04/11 17:56:46 karl Exp $ 356160Sru 4146515Sru Copyright (C) 1999, 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. 556160Sru 656160Sru This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify 756160Sru it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by 856160Sru the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) 956160Sru any later version. 1056160Sru 1156160Sru This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, 1256160Sru but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 1356160Sru MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the 1456160Sru GNU General Public License for more details. 1556160Sru 1656160Sru You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along 1756160Sru with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 1856160Sru 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. */ 1956160Sru 2056160Sru#include "system.h" 2156160Sru 2256160Sruchar * 23146515Srusubstring (const char *start, const char *end) 2456160Sru{ 2556160Sru char *result = xmalloc (end - start + 1); 2656160Sru char *scan_result = result; 27146515Sru const char *scan = start; 2856160Sru 2956160Sru while (scan < end) 3056160Sru *scan_result++ = *scan++; 3156160Sru 3256160Sru *scan_result = 0; 3356160Sru return result; 3456160Sru} 3556160Sru 36