strspn(3)                           CLIX                           strspn(3)



  NAME

    strspn - Finds the length of the first occurence of one given string of
    characters in another

  LIBRARY

    Standard C Library (libc.a)

  SYNOPSIS

    #include <string.h>
    size_t strspn(
      char * string1 ,
      char * string2 );

  PARAMETERS

    string1
           A pointer to a character string

    string2
           A pointer to a character string

  DESCRIPTION

    The strspn() function computes the length of the maximum initial segment
    of the string pointed to by the string1 parameter, which consists entirely
    of characters from the string pointed to by the string2 parameter.

  EXAMPLES

    #include <stdio.h>
    #include <string.h>

    main()
    {
         size_t sub_len;
         char *string1 = "a string";
         char *vowels = "aeiou";

         /* The sub_len will be 1 since the second character of string1 is a space ' ' */
         sub_len = strspn (string1, vowels);

         printf ("The length of the initial segment of '%s" which consists\n", string1);
         printf ("entirely of characters from '%s' is %d\n", vowels, sub_len);
    }


  RELATED INFORMATION




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  strspn(3)                           CLIX                           strspn(3)



    Functions: index(3), rindex(3), strcat(3), strcmp(3), strcspn(3),
    strchr(3), strcpy(3), strlen(3), strncat(3), strncmp(3), strncpy(3),
    strpbrk(3), strrchr(3)



















































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