STRTREXPAND(3pub)

✨ STRTREXPAND(3pub) ✨

okay bestie, so this is a page from the C Programmer's Manual and it's all about a lil function called strtrexpand 💖 she lives in publib and she is genuinely so useful, no cap.

🌸 NAME 🌸

strtrexpand — expand tr-like notation in string 🦋

like… she takes the cute shorthand and spells it all the way out. it's giving translator energy.

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

#include <publib.h>
void strtrexpand(char *tgt, const char *src);

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

okay so here's the tea ☕ strtrexpand takes shorthand notation — the same kinda vibe as the stuff tr(1) uses — and converts it into the equivalent longhand notation. like, she expands it. hence the name, iykyk 💀

the supported short forms are literally these:

• a-b — every character from a to b, inclusive, in the order their character codes give them. so like, the whole range, both ends included, periodt 👑
• \a — just the character a. the backslash is doing the most for one lil letter but okay we love her 🫶
• \o, \oo, \ooo — the character with octal code o, oo, or ooo, respectively. so one, two, or three octal digits, your call bestie ✨

⭐ RETURN VALUE ⭐

strtrexpand returns nothing. like, genuinely nothing. it's a void function, she does the work and dips, no receipt, no notes 💜

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• publib(3)
• tr(1)

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Lars Wirzenius (lars.wirzenius@helsinki.fi) — icon behavior fr fr 💖

Publib · C Programmer's Manual · STRTREXPAND(3pub)

and that's the whole page bestie, mwah 💋 this was the Publib release, from the C Programmer's Manual, filed under STRTREXPAND(3pub) — slay, go expand some strings 🎀✨