STRSPN(3) BSD Library Functions Manual STRSPN(3)NAME
strspn — span a string
LIBRARY
Standard C Library (libc, -lc)
SYNOPSIS
#include <string.h>
size_t
strspn(const char *s, const char *charset);
DESCRIPTION
The strspn() function spans the initial part of the nul-terminated string
s as long as the characters from s occur in string charset.
RETURN VALUES
The strspn() function returns the number of characters spanned.
EXAMPLES
The following call to strspn() will return 3, since the first three char‐
acters of string s are part of string charset:
char *s = "foobar";
char *charset = "of";
size_t span;
span = strspn(s, charset);
SEE ALSOindex(3), memchr(3), rindex(3), strchr(3), strcspn(3), strpbrk(3),
strrchr(3), strsep(3), strstr(3), strtok(3)STANDARDS
The strspn() function conforms to ANSI X3.159-1989 (“ANSI C89”).
BSD August 11, 2002 BSD