mtext_del(3) Delete characters in the specified range destructively.

SYNOPSIS

int mtext_del (MText * mt, int from, int to)

DESCRIPTION

Delete characters in the specified range destructively. The mtext_del() function deletes the characters in the range from (inclusive) and to (exclusive) from M-text mt destructively. As a result, the length of mt shrinks by (to - from) characters.

RETURN VALUE

If the operation was successful, mtext_del() returns 0. Otherwise, it returns -1 and assigns an error code to the external variable merror_code.

ERRORS

MERROR_RANGE

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2001 Information-technology Promotion Agency (IPA)
Copyright (C) 2001-2011 National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)
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