strcspn (3)

STRSPN(3) Linux Programmer's Manual STRSPN(3) NAME strspn, strcspn - search a string for a set of characters 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 of the initial segment of s which consists entirely of characters in accept. The strcspn() function calculates the length of the initial segment of s which consists entirely of characters not in reject. RETURN VALUE The strspn() function returns the number of characters in the initial segment of s which consist only of characters from accept. The strcspn() function returns the number of characters in the initial segment of s which are not in the string reject. CONFORMING TO SVr4, 4.3BSD, C89, C99. SEE ALSO index(3), memchr(3), rindex(3), strchr(3), strpbrk(3), strsep(3), strstr(3), strtok(3), wcsspn(3), wcscspn(3) 1993-04-12 STRSPN(3)