Strings and Memory (`string.h')

This chapter describes string-handling functions and functions for managing areas of memory. The corresponding declarations are in `string.h'.

• bcmp: Compare two memory areas
• bcopy: Copy memory regions
• bzero: Initialize memory to zero
• index: Search for character in string
• memchr: Find character in memory
• memcmp: Compare two memory areas
• memcpy: Copy memory regions
• memmove: Move possibly overlapping memory
• memset: Set an area of memory
• rindex: Reverse search for character in string
• strcat: Concatenate strings
• strchr: Search for character in string
• strcmp: Character string compare
• strcoll: Locale specific character string compare
• strcpy: Copy string
• strcspn: Count chars not in string
• strerror: Convert error number to string
• strlen: Character string length
• strncat: Concatenate strings
• strncmp: Character string compare
• strncpy: Counted copy string
• strpbrk: Find chars in string
• strrchr: Reverse search for character in string
• strspn: Find initial match
• strstr: Find string segment
• strtok: Get next token from a string
• strxfrm: Transform string