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This header was originally in the C standard library as <string.h>.
This header is for C-style null-terminated byte strings.
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returns the length of the maximum initial segment that consists
of only the characters found in another byte string
(function) [edit]
of only the characters found in another byte string
(function) [edit]
returns the length of the maximum initial segment that consists
of only the characters not found in another byte string
(function) [edit]
of only the characters not found in another byte string
(function) [edit]
Character array manipulation
Miscellaneous
[edit] Notes
- NULL is also defined in the following headers:
- std::size_t is also defined in the following headers:
[edit] Synopsis
namespace std { using size_t = /* see description */; // freestanding void* memcpy(void* s1, const void* s2, size_t n); // freestanding void* memmove(void* s1, const void* s2, size_t n); // freestanding char* strcpy(char* s1, const char* s2); // freestanding char* strncpy(char* s1, const char* s2, size_t n); // freestanding char* strcat(char* s1, const char* s2); // freestanding char* strncat(char* s1, const char* s2, size_t n); // freestanding int memcmp(const void* s1, const void* s2, size_t n); // freestanding int strcmp(const char* s1, const char* s2); // freestanding int strcoll(const char* s1, const char* s2); int strncmp(const char* s1, const char* s2, size_t n); // freestanding size_t strxfrm(char* s1, const char* s2, size_t n); const void* memchr(const void* s, int c, size_t n); // freestanding void* memchr(void* s, int c, size_t n); // freestanding const char* strchr(const char* s, int c); // freestanding char* strchr(char* s, int c); // freestanding size_t strcspn(const char* s1, const char* s2); // freestanding const char* strpbrk(const char* s1, const char* s2); // freestanding char* strpbrk(char* s1, const char* s2); // freestanding const char* strrchr(const char* s, int c); // freestanding char* strrchr(char* s, int c); // freestanding size_t strspn(const char* s1, const char* s2); // freestanding const char* strstr(const char* s1, const char* s2); // freestanding char* strstr(char* s1, const char* s2); // freestanding char* strtok(char* s1, const char* s2); // freestanding void* memset(void* s, int c, size_t n); // freestanding char* strerror(int errnum); size_t strlen(const char* s); // freestanding } #define NULL /* see description */ // freestanding