How to cut part of a string in c?

Question

I\'m trying to figure out how to cut part of a string in C. For example you have this character string \"The dog died because a car hit him while it was crossing the road\" how

Answer 1

strncpy will only copy up to n characters. Optionally you can move a pointer around in the string, and also stick a \0 into the array to terminate it early if you have writable memory.