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| 25 | .\" References consulted: | |
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| 27 | .\" Lewine's _POSIX Programmer's Guide_ (O'Reilly & Associates, 1991) | |
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| 29 | .\" Modified Sun Jul 25 10:39:43 1993 by Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu) | |
| 50831f9b | 30 | .TH STRFRY 3 2010-09-20 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual" |
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31 | .SH NAME |
| 32 | strfry \- randomize a string | |
| 33 | .SH SYNOPSIS | |
| 34 | .nf | |
| b80f966b | 35 | .BR "#define _GNU_SOURCE" " /* See feature_test_macros(7) */" |
| d49daffc | 36 | .br |
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37 | .B #include <string.h> |
| 38 | .sp | |
| 39 | .BI "char *strfry(char *" string ); | |
| 40 | .fi | |
| 41 | .SH DESCRIPTION | |
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42 | The |
| 43 | .BR strfry () | |
| 44 | function randomizes the contents of \fIstring\fP by | |
| 45 | using | |
| 46 | .BR rand (3) | |
| 47 | to randomly swap characters in the string. | |
| c13182ef | 48 | The result is an anagram of \fIstring\fP. |
| 47297adb | 49 | .SH RETURN VALUE |
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50 | The |
| 51 | .BR strfry () | |
| 52 | functions returns a pointer to the randomized | |
| fea681da | 53 | string. |
| 47297adb | 54 | .SH CONFORMING TO |
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55 | The |
| 56 | .BR strfry () | |
| 57 | function is unique to the | |
| fea681da | 58 | GNU C Library. |
| 47297adb | 59 | .SH SEE ALSO |
| 0a90178c | 60 | .BR memfrob (3), |
| 0a4f8b7b | 61 | .BR string (3) |