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<h3>STRSPN(3) Linux Programmer's Manual STRSPN(3)
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<h3>NAME
</h3> strspn, strcspn - search a string for a set of characters
<h3>SYNOPSIS
</h3> #include <string.h>
size_t strspn(const char *s, const char *accept);
size_t strcspn(const char *s, const char *reject);
<h3>DESCRIPTION
</h3> 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 ini-
tial segment of s which consists entirely of characters
not in reject.
<h3>RETURN VALUE
</h3> 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.
<h3>CONFORMING TO
</h3> SVID 3, POSIX, BSD 4.3, ISO 9899
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<h3>SEE ALSO
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<a href=index.htm>index</a>,
<a href=memchr.htm>memchr</a>,
<a href=rindex.htm>rindex</a>,
<a href=strchr.htm>strchr</a>,
<a href=strpbrk.htm>strpbrk</a>,
<a href=strsep.htm>strsep</a>,
<a href=strstr.htm>strstr</a>,
<a href=strtok.htm>strtok</a>,
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