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C string handling

The C programming language has a set of functions implementing operations on strings (character strings and byte strings) in its standard library. Various operations, such as copying, concatenation, tokenization and searching are supported. For character strings, the standard library uses the convention that strings are null-terminated: a string of n…

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Strlcpy, strlcat

OpenBSDGNU C libraryFreeBSDNetBSDSolaris
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C string handling

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Avg. degree1.96
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functions string strings code standard utf-8 unit wide character utf-16 zero byte encodings characters library used defined source since types

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UTF-16instance ofbut not characters in encodings0.80text
UTF-8 do not need thisinstance ofbut modern ones0.80text
SDLinstance ofand the source code added directly to other projects0.80text
GLibinstance ofand the source code added directly to other projects0.80text
ffmpeginstance ofand the source code added directly to other projects0.80text
rsyncinstance ofand the source code added directly to other projects0.80text
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