strings.h

Section: POSIX Programmer's Manual (0P)
Updated: 2017
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NAME

strings.h --- string operations

SYNOPSIS

#include <strings.h>

DESCRIPTION

The following shall be declared as functions and may also be defined as macros. Function prototypes shall be provided for use with ISO C standard compilers.


int    ffs(int);
int    strcasecmp(const char *, const char *);
int    strcasecmp_l(const char *, const char *, locale_t);
int    strncasecmp(const char *, const char *, size_t);
int    strncasecmp_l(const char *, const char *, size_t, locale_t);

The <strings.h> header shall define the locale_t type as described in <locale.h>.

The <strings.h> header shall define the size_t type as described in <sys/types.h>.

The following sections are informative.

APPLICATION USAGE

None.

RATIONALE

None.

FUTURE DIRECTIONS

None.

COPYRIGHT

Portions of this text are reprinted and reproduced in electronic form from IEEE Std 1003.1-2017, Standard for Information Technology -- Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX), The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 7, 2018 Edition, Copyright (C) 2018 by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc and The Open Group. In the event of any discrepancy between this version and the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard, the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard is the referee document. The original Standard can be obtained online at http://www.opengroup.org/unix/online.html .

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strings.h

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NAME

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

APPLICATION USAGE

RATIONALE

FUTURE DIRECTIONS

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COPYRIGHT

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