strspn() and strcspn()

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[ Fro m Linux Programmer's Manual ]

NAME

       strspn, strcspn - search a string for a set of characters
SYNOPSIS
       #include <string.h>
       size_t strspn(const char *s, const char *accept);
       size_t strcspn(const char *s, const char *reject);
DESCRIPTION
       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 initial segment of s which consists entirely of characters not in reject.
RETURN VALUE
       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.

[ From MSDN ]

size_t strcspn( const char *str, const char *strCharSet );

Returns the index of the first occurrence of a character in a string that belongs to a set of characters.

Parameters

str                   Null-terminated searched string. strCharSet    Null-terminated character set. Return Value

These functions return the index of the first character in str that is in strCharSet. If none of the characters in str is in strCharSet, then the return value is the length of str.

No return value is reserved to indicate an error.

size_t strspn( const char *str, const char *strCharSet );

Returns the index of the first character in a string that does not belong to a set of characters.

Parameters

str                      Null-terminated string to search.

strCharSet       Null-terminated character set.

Return Value

Returns an integer value specifying the length of the substring in str that consists entirely of characters in strCharSet. If str begins with a character not in strCharSet, the function returns 0.