centos man page for strcspn

Query: strcspn

OS: centos

Section: 3

Format: Original Unix Latex Style Formatted with HTML and a Horizontal Scroll Bar

STRSPN(3)						     Linux Programmer's Manual							 STRSPN(3)

NAME
strspn, strcspn - search a string for a set of bytes
SYNOPSIS
#include <string.h> size_t strspn(const char *s, const char *accept); size_t strcspn(const char *s, const char *reject);
DESCRIPTION
The strspn() function calculates the length (in bytes) of the initial segment of s which consists entirely of bytes in accept. The strcspn() function calculates the length of the initial segment of s which consists entirely of bytes not in reject.
RETURN VALUE
The strspn() function returns the number of bytes in the initial segment of s which consist only of bytes from accept. The strcspn() function returns the number of bytes in the initial segment of s which are not in the string reject.
CONFORMING TO
SVr4, 4.3BSD, C89, C99.
SEE ALSO
index(3), memchr(3), rindex(3), strchr(3), string(3), strpbrk(3), strsep(3), strstr(3), strtok(3), wcscspn(3), wcsspn(3)
COLOPHON
This page is part of release 3.53 of the Linux man-pages project. A description of the project, and information about reporting bugs, can be found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/. 2012-05-10 STRSPN(3)
Related Man Pages
strcspn(3) - debian
strcspn(3) - minix
strspn(3) - minix
strcspn(3) - x11r4
strspn(3) - v7
Similar Topics in the Unix Linux Community
How to delete initial N bytes from the starting of the file using sed?