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STRING

Section: Linux Programmer's Manual (3)
Updated: 2010-02-25
Index Return to Main Contents

NAME

stpcpy, strcasecmp, strcat, strchr, strcmp, strcoll, strcpy, strcspn, strdup, strfry, strlen, strncat, strncmp, strncpy, strncasecmp, strpbrk, strrchr, strsep, strspn, strstr, strtok, strxfrm, index, rindex - string operations

SYNOPSIS

#include <strings.h>

int strcasecmp(const char *s1, const char *s2);

int strncasecmp(const char *s1, const char *s2, size_t n);

char *index(const char *s, int c);

char *rindex(const char *s, int c);

#include <string.h>

char *stpcpy(char *dest, const char *src);

char *strcat(char *dest, const char *src);

char *strchr(const char *s, int c);

int strcmp(const char *s1, const char *s2);

int strcoll(const char *s1, const char *s2);

char *strcpy(char *dest, const char *src);

size_t strcspn(const char *s, const char *reject);

char *strdup(const char *s);

char *strfry(char *string);

size_t strlen(const char *s);

char *strncat(char *dest, const char *src, size_t n);

int strncmp(const char *s1, const char *s2, size_t n);

char *strncpy(char *dest, const char *src, size_t n);

char *strpbrk(const char *s, const char *accept);

char *strrchr(const char *s, int c);

char *strsep(char **stringp, const char *delim);

size_t strspn(const char *s, const char *accept);

char *strstr(const char *haystack, const char *needle);

char *strtok(char *s, const char *delim);

size_t strxfrm(char *dest, const char *src, size_t n);

DESCRIPTION

The string functions perform string operations on null-terminated strings. See the individual man pages for descriptions of each function.

COLOPHON

This page is part of release 3.27 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/.