redhat man page for strnlen

Query: strnlen

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

NAME
strnlen - determine the length of a fixed-size string
SYNOPSIS
#include <string.h> size_t strnlen(const char *s, size_t maxlen);
DESCRIPTION
The strnlen function returns the number of characters in the string pointed to by s, not including the terminating '' character, but at most maxlen. In doing this, strnlen looks only at the first maxlen characters at s and never beyond s+maxlen.
RETURN VALUE
The strnlen function returns strlen(s), if that is less than maxlen, or maxlen if there is no '' character among the first maxlen charac- ters pointed to by s.
CONFORMING TO
This function is a GNU extension.
SEE ALSO
strlen(3)
GNU
1999-07-25 STRNLEN(3)
Related Man Pages
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