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strspn(3)                  Library Functions Manual                  strspn(3)

NAME
       strspn, strcspn - get length of a prefix substring

LIBRARY
       Standard C library (libc, -lc)

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 (in bytes) of the initial
       segment of s which consists entirely of bytes in accept.

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

RETURN VALUE
       The  strspn()  function returns the number of bytes in the initial seg-
       ment of s which consist only of bytes from accept.

       The strcspn() function returns the number of bytes in the initial  seg-
       ment of s which are not in the string reject.

ATTRIBUTES
       For  an  explanation  of  the  terms  used  in  this  section,  see at-
       tributes(7).

       ┌────────────────────────────────────────────┬───────────────┬─────────┐
       │InterfaceAttributeValue   │
       ├────────────────────────────────────────────┼───────────────┼─────────┤
       │strspn(), strcspn()                         │ Thread safety │ MT-Safe │
       └────────────────────────────────────────────┴───────────────┴─────────┘

STANDARDS
       POSIX.1-2001, POSIX.1-2008, C99, SVr4, 4.3BSD.

SEE ALSO
       memchr(3), strchr(3), string(3), strpbrk(3), strsep(3), strstr(3), str-
       tok(3), wcscspn(3), wcsspn(3)

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