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Name

strspn, strcspn - get length of a prefix substring

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 segment of s which consist only of bytes from accept.

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

Attributes

Multithreading (see pthreads(7) )

The strspn() and strcspn() functions are thread-safe.

Conforming to

SVr4, 4.3BSD, C89, C99.

See Also

index(3) , memchr(3) , rindex(3) , strchr(3) , string(3) , strpbrk(3) , strsep(3) , strstr(3) , strtok(3) , wcscspn(3) , wcsspn(3)

Colophon

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