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- From: kimball@stsci.edu (Timothy Kimball)
- Subject: Re: String function names
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- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 14:20:13 GMT
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- Ross Smith (alien@acheron.amigans.gen.nz) wrote:
- : Out of curiosity, does anyone know the derivation of the names of the more
- : obscure string functions? Names like "strcat()" and "strlen()" are obvious
- : enough, but what on earth are "strcspn()", "strpbrk()", and "strspn()"
- : supposed to mean?
- :
- : (I know what the functions *do*, I'm just wondering where the names come
- : from.)
-
- You got me. And if you look on page 388 of Plauger,
- _The_C_Standard_Library_, you'll see that he's mystified by it, too-
- and he sits on the ANSI standards committees!
-
- tdk
-