How to get slice of string?

Question

Is there any function to get a substring in GLib?

Something like

gchar *getSlice(const gchar *text, gint startIndex);

Answer 1

You can just do:

 gchar *s = &text[start_index];

If you want a copy of the substring, do

 gchar *s = g_strdup(&text[start_index]);

Remember to free the string when you're done with it in the latter case.