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usetat(3alleg4) Allegro manual usetat(3alleg4)

usetat - Replaces a character in a string. Allegro game programming library.

#include <allegro.h>

int usetat(char *s, int index, int c);

Replaces the character at the specified index in the string with value `c', handling any adjustments for variable width data (ie. if `c' encodes to a different width than the previous value at that location). If `index' is negative, it counts backward from the end of the string. Example:


usetat(text_string, 2, letter_a);

Returns the number of bytes by which the trailing part of the string was moved. This is of interest only with text encoding formats where characters have a variable length, like UTF-8.

uoffset(3alleg4), ugetat(3alleg4), uinsert(3alleg4), uremove(3alleg4)

version 4.4.3 Allegro