How to remove the first character of a string in C

In this tutorial, we are going to learn about how to remove the first character of a string in C.

Consider, we have the following string.

char name[6] = "vamsi";

Now, we want to remove the first character v from the above string.

Removing the first character

To remove the first character of a string, we can use the char *str = str + 1 in C. it means the string starts from the index position 1.

Here is an example:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>

int main() {
  char name[6] = "vamsi";
  char *result = name+1;
  printf("%s\n",result);
}

Output:

"amsi"

Similarly, we can also use the memmove() function in C like this.

#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>

int main() {
  char car[6] = "abenz";
  memmove(car, car+1, strlen(car));
  printf("%s\n", car);
}

Output:

"benz"