parsing strings

[tkidder]

I am trying to parse a variable length string being returned by a barcode scanner. The string can be up to 20 characters long. for example: "<12345>678321". I need to capture only the characters between the "< >" characters.

strncpy(NewStrg, Strg+3,20) will give me the string without he first
"<" .
I have tried this:
valueptr = strchr(NewStrg, '>');
for(x=0; x<valueptr ; x++)
{
NewestStrg[x]=NewStrg[x];
}

but does not give right result.

[PCM programmer]

strchr() returns a pointer, not an index.