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UTF-8 string routines

About UTF-8 string routines
UTF-8 string types
- ALLEGRO_USTR
- ALLEGRO_USTR_INFO
Creating and destroying strings
Predefined strings
- al_ustr_empty_string
Creating strings by referencing other data
Sizes and offsets
Getting code points
Inserting into strings
Appending to strings
Removing parts of strings
Assigning one string to another
Replacing parts of string
- al_ustr_set_chr
- al_ustr_replace_range
Searching
Comparing
UTF-16 conversion
Low-level UTF-8 routines
- al_utf8_width
- al_utf8_encode
Low-level UTF-16 routines
- al_utf16_width
- al_utf16_encode

al_ustr_remove_range

bool al_ustr_remove_range(ALLEGRO_USTR *us, int start_pos, int end_pos) Introduced in 5.0.0

Remove the interval [start_pos, end_pos) (in bytes) from a string. start_pos and end_pos may both be past the end of the string but cannot be less than 0 (the start of the string).

Returns true on success, false on error.

See also: al_ustr_remove_chr, al_ustr_truncate

Examples: ex_utf8

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