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diff --git a/man3/string.3 b/man3/string.3 index 5e27a651ba..0dee9e0245 100644 --- a/man3/string.3 +++ b/man3/string.3 @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ .\" Lewine's _POSIX Programmer's Guide_ (O'Reilly & Associates, 1991) .\" 386BSD man pages .\" Modified Sun Jul 25 10:54:31 1993, Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu) -.TH STRING 3 2010-02-25 "" "Linux Programmer's Manual" +.TH STRING 3 2014-01-04 "" "Linux Programmer's Manual" .SH NAME stpcpy, strcasecmp, strcat, strchr, strcmp, strcoll, strcpy, strcspn, strdup, strfry, strlen, strncat, strncmp, strncpy, strncasecmp, strpbrk, @@ -37,34 +37,33 @@ strrchr, strsep, strspn, strstr, strtok, strxfrm, index, rindex .B #include <strings.h> .TP .BI "int strcasecmp(const char *" s1 ", const char *" s2 ); -Compares +Compare the strings .I s1 and .I s2 -ignoring the case. +ignoring case. .TP .BI "int strncasecmp(const char *" s1 ", const char *" s2 ", size_t " n ); -Compares the first +Compare the first .I n -characters of +characters of the strings .I s1 and .I s2 -ignoring the case. +ignoring case. .TP .BI "char *index(const char *" s ", int " c ); -Returns the first occurrence of +Return a pointer to the first occurrence of the character .I c -in +in the string .IR s . .TP .BI "char *rindex(const char *" s ", int " c ); -Returns the last occurrence of +Return a pointer to the last occurrence of the character .I c -in +in the string .IR s . .TP -.TP .B #include <string.h> .TP .TP @@ -72,71 +71,79 @@ in Copy a string from .I src to +.IR dest , +returning a pointer to the end of the resulting string at .IR dest . .TP .BI "char *strcat(char *" dest ", const char *" src ); -Concatenate +Append the string .I src -to +to the string +.IR dest , +returning a pointer .IR dest . .TP .BI "char *strchr(const char *" s ", int " c ); -Find the first occurence of +Return a pointer to the first occurrence of the character .I c -in +in the string .IR s . .TP .BI "int strcmp(const char *" s1 ", const char *" s2 ); -Compare +Compare the strings .I s1 with -.IR s2. +.IR s2 . .TP .BI "int strcoll(const char *" s1 ", const char *" s2 ); -Compare +Compare the strings .I s1 with .I s2 using the current locale. .TP .BI "char *strcpy(char *" dest ", const char *" src ); -Copy +Copy the string .I src to -.IR dst . +.IR dest , +returning a pointer to the start of +.IR dest . .TP .BI "size_t strcspn(const char *" s ", const char *" reject ); -Calculate the length of the initial segment of +Calculate the length of the initial segment of the string .I s -which does not contain -.IR reject . +which does not contain any of bytes in the string +.IR reject , .TP .BI "char *strdup(const char *" s ); -Copy +Return a duplicate of the string .I s -to memory allocated using +in memory allocated using .IR malloc (3). .TP .BI "char *strfry(char *" string ); Randomly swap the characters in -.IR string. +.IR string . .TP .BI "size_t strlen(const char *" s ); -Calculate the length of +Return the length of the string .IR s . .TP .BI "char *strncat(char *" dest ", const char *" src ", size_t " n ); -Copy at most +Append at most .I n -characters from +characters from the string .I src -to +to the string +.IR dest , +returning a pointer to .IR dest . .TP .BI "int strncmp(const char *" s1 ", const char *" s2 ", size_t " n ); Compare at most .I n -bytes of +bytes of the strings .I s1 and .IR s2. @@ -144,46 +151,48 @@ and .BI "char *strncpy(char *" dest ", const char *" src ", size_t " n ); Copy at most .I n -bytes -from +bytes from string .I src to -.IR dst . +.IR dest , +returning a pointer to the start of +.IR dest . .TP .BI "char *strpbrk(const char *" s ", const char *" accept ); -Return the first occurrence of +Return a pointer to the first occurrence in the string .I s -in +of one of the bytes in the string .IR accept . .TP .BI "char *strrchr(const char *" s ", int " c ); -Return the first occurrence of -.I s -in -.IR c . +Return a pointer to the last occurrence of the character +.I c +in the string +.IR s . .TP .BI "char *strsep(char **" stringp ", const char *" delim ); -Tokenise +Extract the initial token in .I stringp -at +that is delimited by one of the bytes in .IR delim . .TP .BI "size_t strspn(const char *" s ", const char *" accept ); -Calculate the size of the starting segment in +Calculate the length of the starting segment in the string .I s -that consists of +that consists entirely of bytes in .IR accept . .TP .BI "char *strstr(const char *" haystack ", const char *" needle ); -Find the first occurrence of +Find the first occurrence of the substring .I needle -in -.IR haystack . +in the string +.IR haystack , +returning a pointer to the found substring. .TP .BI "char *strtok(char *" s ", const char *" delim ); -Tokenize +Extract tokens from the string .I s -at +that are delimited by one of the bytes in .IR delim . .TP .BI "size_t strxfrm(char *" dest ", const char *" src ", size_t " n ); |