strings.h(0P)

🎀 strings.h — string operations 🎀

okay bestie, so this is strings.h(0P) from the POSIX Programmer's Manual, and it's lowkey the chill little sister of <string.h>. Let's get into it 💖

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✨ PROLOG ✨

okay so real talk first: this manual page is part of the POSIX Programmer's Manual. The Linux implementation of this interface may differ (so pls consult the corresponding Linux manual page for details of Linux behavior), or — and I'm gonna hold your hand for this one — the interface may not be implemented on Linux at all. 🙈

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💅 NAME 💅

strings.h — string operations. that's it, that's the whole vibe.

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

#include <strings.h>

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so here's the tea. The following shall be declared as functions, and they may also be defined as macros. Function prototypes shall be provided for use with ISO C standard compilers. ✨

int    ffs(int);
int    strcasecmp(const char *, const char *);
int    strcasecmp_l(const char *, const char *, locale_t);
int    strncasecmp(const char *, const char *, size_t);
int    strncasecmp_l(const char *, const char *, size_t, locale_t);

The <strings.h> header shall define the locale_t type as described in <locale.h>. 💜

The <strings.h> header shall define the size_t type as described in <sys/types.h>. 💜

The following sections are informative.

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🫶 APPLICATION USAGE 🫶

None. literally nothing. not me being an empty section and still serving looks 💅

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🧚 RATIONALE 🧚

None. also nothing. it's giving minimalist. it's giving mystery. 🎀

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⭐ FUTURE DIRECTIONS ⭐

None. nothing here either bestie, the future is a blank canvas and we're thriving 🌈

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• <locale.h>
• <sys_types.h>
• The System Interfaces volume of POSIX.1‐2017, ffs(), strcasecmp()

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👑 COPYRIGHT 👑

okay so the legal bits, and I need you to read them fr fr:

Portions of this text are reprinted and reproduced in electronic form from IEEE Std 1003.1-2017, Standard for Information Technology -- Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX), The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 7, 2018 Edition, Copyright (C) 2018 by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc and The Open Group. In the event of any discrepancy between this version and the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard, the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard is the referee document. The original Standard can be obtained online at http://www.opengroup.org/unix/online.html.

Any typographical or formatting errors that appear in this page are most likely to have been introduced during the conversion of the source files to man page format. To report such errors, see https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/reporting_bugs.html.

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no cap: if anything here ever contradicts the original Standard, the original Standard wins. periodt. 💖

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and that's the page bestie!! this whole thing came to you courtesy of IEEE/The Open Group, 2017 — strings.h(0P), mwah, slay, go include your header 🦋💅✨