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 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

       For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see attributes(7).
       ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┬───────────────┬─────────┐
       │ Interface                                                                   │ Attribute     │ Value   │
       ├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼───────────────┼─────────┤
       │ strspn(), strcspn()                                                         │ Thread safety │ MT-Safe │
       └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┴───────────────┴─────────┘

STANDARDS

       C11, POSIX.1-2008.

HISTORY

       POSIX.1-2001, C89, SVr4, 4.3BSD.

SEE ALSO

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

Linux man-pages 6.9.1                              2024-05-02                                          strspn(3)