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1.\" Copyright 1993 David Metcalfe (david@prism.demon.co.uk)
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23.\" References consulted:
24.\" Linux libc source code
25.\" Lewine's _POSIX Programmer's Guide_ (O'Reilly & Associates, 1991)
26.\" 386BSD man pages
27.\" Modified Sat Jul 24 17:57:50 1993 by Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu)
28.TH STRSPN 3 1993-04-12 "" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
29.SH NAME
30strspn, strcspn \- search a string for a set of characters
31.SH SYNOPSIS
32.nf
33.B #include <string.h>
34.sp
35.BI "size_t strspn(const char *" s ", const char *" accept );
36.sp
37.BI "size_t strcspn(const char *" s ", const char *" reject );
38.fi
39.SH DESCRIPTION
63aa9df0 40The \fBstrspn\fP() function calculates the length of the initial
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41segment of \fIs\fP which consists entirely of characters in
42\fIaccept\fP.
43.PP
63aa9df0 44The \fBstrcspn\fP() function calculates the length of the initial
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45segment of \fIs\fP which consists entirely of characters not in
46\fIreject\fP.
47.SH "RETURN VALUE"
63aa9df0 48The \fBstrspn\fP() function returns the number of characters in
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49the initial segment of \fIs\fP which consist only of characters
50from \fIaccept\fP.
51.PP
63aa9df0 52The \fBstrcspn\fP() function returns the number of characters in
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53the initial segment of \fIs\fP which are not in the string
54\fIreject\fP.
55.SH "CONFORMING TO"
68e1685c 56SVr4, 4.3BSD, C89, C99.
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57.SH "SEE ALSO"
58.BR index (3),
59.BR memchr (3),
60.BR rindex (3),
61.BR strchr (3),
62.BR strpbrk (3),
63.BR strsep (3),
64.BR strstr (3),
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65.BR strtok (3),
66.BR wcsspn (3),
67.BR wcscspn (3)