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STRSPN (3)

search a string for a set of characters

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 of the initial segment of s which consists entirely of characters in accept.

    The strcspn() function calculates the length of the initial segment of s which consists entirely of characters not in reject.

RETURN VALUE

    The strspn() function returns the number of characters in the initial segment of s which consist only of characters from accept.

    The strcspn() function returns the number of characters in the initial segment of s which are not in the string reject.

CONFORMING TO

    SVID 3, POSIX, BSD 4.3, ISO 9899

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