[Techtalk] getting the time as a string in c

[Kathryn Hogg]

kristina clair said:
> Thanks for all the replies!  It was all very helpful.
>
> I did consider using ctime(), but the problem is that I do not want a
> newline in the time string.
>
> I thought that maybe I could replace it with a space, using something like
> this:
>
>     time_t timeseconds;
>     timeseconds = time(NULL);
>     char timestring[] = ctime(&timeseconds);  /* line 13 */
>     timestring[strlen(timestring)-1] = " ";
>   printf("%s", ctime(&t));

If you declare timestring as "char * timestring = ...."; You'll be fine. 
I prefer a somewhat safer way of replacing the trailing the newline with a
space (or just truncating):

#include <string.h>

    char *timestring = ctime(time(NULL));
    char *s = strrchr(timestring, '\n');
    if (s != NULL)
         *s = '\0';


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