STRUNCSTR(3pub)

✨ STRUNCSTR(3pub) ✨

okay bestie, so this is a page from the C Programmer's Manual 💖 and it's literally about one tiny little function that does one tiny little job, but it does it so well. let's get into it 🫶

🌸 NAME 🌸

struncstr — convert printable C string notation to a memory block 💅

no cap, that's the whole vibe. it takes the cute written-out version and turns it into the actual bytes. iconic.

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

#include <publib.h>
void struncstr(void *block, const char *str, size_t max);

so you gotta pull in <publib.h> first, and then this is the signature, exactly like that, don't come for me about the void * it's doing its best 💜

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so here's the tea ☕ struncstr takes a C string literal and converts it into the memory block that it describes — and the way it does that is by converting all the escape sequences into single characters. like, all of them. every \n, every \t, every little backslash situation — boom, actual characters now ✨

if you wanna know the full lore of what "C string literal notation" even means, go check a C reference manual, or peek at strcstr(3) which is literally the sibling function for this exact thing 👑 (more on them in SEE ALSO, keep reading bestie)

and then there's max — that's the maximum number of characters to store into the memory block. so max is your limit, your cap, your "okay that's enough sweetie" 🎀

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• publib(3) — the whole family 💖
• strcstr(3) — the reverse-direction bestie, the one that writes the notation out instead of reading it in 🔥

💖 AUTHOR 💖

this absolute legend right here:

Lars Wirzenius — lars.wirzenius@helsinki.fi 🌸

okay so fr fr, this whole page is from Publib, living inside the C Programmer's Manual — that's the source and the version vibe, bestie. no date on this one, so we're just gonna say it's timeless ✨💅🦋

go forth and un-escape your strings, you gorgeous nerd 🫶⭐