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.\" Lewine's _POSIX Programmer's Guide_ (O'Reilly & Associates, 1991)
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.\" Modified Sat Jul 24 17:57:50 1993 by Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu)
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futimesat.2, mount.2, confstr.3, iconv.3, makedev.3, malloc.3, strcasecmp.3, strcat.3, strcmp.3, strcpy.3, strdup.3, strftime.3, strnlen.3, strpbrk.3, strspn.3, strtok.3, strxfrm.3, sk98lin.4, icmp.7, ipv6.7, packet.7, raw.7, rtnetlink.7, unix.7, x25.7, ldconfig.8, nscd.8: tstamp
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2012-05-10 20:09:28 +00:00
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.TH STRSPN 3 2012-05-10 "" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
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.SH NAME
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confstr.3, strcasecmp.3, strcat.3, strcmp.3, strcpy.3, strdup.3, strftime.3, strlen.3, strnlen.3, strpbrk.3, strspn.3, strtok.3, strxfrm.3: Clarify that these functions operate on bytes, not (wide) characters
Change 'character(s)' to 'byte(s)' to make clear that these
functions operate on bytes, not wide / UTF8 characters.
(POSIX uses 'byte(s)' similarly, to make this point.)
Reported-by: Andries E. Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2012-05-04 04:15:02 +00:00
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strspn, strcspn \- search a string for a set of bytes
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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.nf
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.B #include <string.h>
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.sp
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.BI "size_t strspn(const char *" s ", const char *" accept );
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.sp
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.BI "size_t strcspn(const char *" s ", const char *" reject );
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.fi
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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The
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.BR strspn ()
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confstr.3, strcasecmp.3, strcat.3, strcmp.3, strcpy.3, strdup.3, strftime.3, strlen.3, strnlen.3, strpbrk.3, strspn.3, strtok.3, strxfrm.3: Clarify that these functions operate on bytes, not (wide) characters
Change 'character(s)' to 'byte(s)' to make clear that these
functions operate on bytes, not wide / UTF8 characters.
(POSIX uses 'byte(s)' similarly, to make this point.)
Reported-by: Andries E. Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2012-05-04 04:15:02 +00:00
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function calculates the length (in bytes) of the initial
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segment of \fIs\fP which consists entirely of bytes in
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\fIaccept\fP.
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.PP
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The
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.BR strcspn ()
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function calculates the length of the initial
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confstr.3, strcasecmp.3, strcat.3, strcmp.3, strcpy.3, strdup.3, strftime.3, strlen.3, strnlen.3, strpbrk.3, strspn.3, strtok.3, strxfrm.3: Clarify that these functions operate on bytes, not (wide) characters
Change 'character(s)' to 'byte(s)' to make clear that these
functions operate on bytes, not wide / UTF8 characters.
(POSIX uses 'byte(s)' similarly, to make this point.)
Reported-by: Andries E. Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2012-05-04 04:15:02 +00:00
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segment of \fIs\fP which consists entirely of bytes not in
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\fIreject\fP.
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.SH "RETURN VALUE"
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The
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.BR strspn ()
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confstr.3, strcasecmp.3, strcat.3, strcmp.3, strcpy.3, strdup.3, strftime.3, strlen.3, strnlen.3, strpbrk.3, strspn.3, strtok.3, strxfrm.3: Clarify that these functions operate on bytes, not (wide) characters
Change 'character(s)' to 'byte(s)' to make clear that these
functions operate on bytes, not wide / UTF8 characters.
(POSIX uses 'byte(s)' similarly, to make this point.)
Reported-by: Andries E. Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2012-05-04 04:15:02 +00:00
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function returns the number of bytes in
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the initial segment of \fIs\fP which consist only of bytes
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from \fIaccept\fP.
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.PP
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2007-05-12 09:06:04 +00:00
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The
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.BR strcspn ()
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confstr.3, strcasecmp.3, strcat.3, strcmp.3, strcpy.3, strdup.3, strftime.3, strlen.3, strnlen.3, strpbrk.3, strspn.3, strtok.3, strxfrm.3: Clarify that these functions operate on bytes, not (wide) characters
Change 'character(s)' to 'byte(s)' to make clear that these
functions operate on bytes, not wide / UTF8 characters.
(POSIX uses 'byte(s)' similarly, to make this point.)
Reported-by: Andries E. Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2012-05-04 04:15:02 +00:00
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function returns the number of bytes in
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the initial segment of \fIs\fP which are not in the string
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\fIreject\fP.
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.SH "CONFORMING TO"
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SVr4, 4.3BSD, C89, C99.
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.SH "SEE ALSO"
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.BR index (3),
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.BR memchr (3),
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.BR rindex (3),
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.BR strchr (3),
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index.3, stpcpy.3, strcasecmp.3, strcat.3, strchr.3, strcmp.3, strcoll.3, strcpy.3, strdup.3, strfry.3, strpbrk.3, strsep.3, strspn.3, strstr.3, strtok.3, strxfrm.3: SEE ALSO: Add reference to string(3)
The idea here is to provide a route to discover other
string functions.
Reported-by: Mark Hills <mark@pogo.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-09-12 14:39:58 +00:00
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.BR string (3),
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.BR strpbrk (3),
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.BR strsep (3),
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.BR strstr (3),
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.BR strtok (3),
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.BR wcscspn (3),
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.BR wcsspn (3)
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